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Word Meanings - WINDINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a winding manner.

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  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • WIND-RODE
    Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
  • WINDINGLY
    In a winding manner.
  • WINDTIGHT
    So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
  • WINDLACE
    See SCOTT
  • WIND-SHAKEN
    Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
  • WINDBORE
    The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
  • WIND-SUCKER
    The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law.
  • WINDBOUND
    prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
  • WINDINESS
    1. The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. 2. Fullness of wind; flatulence. 3. Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. 4. Tumor;
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • WINDSOR
    A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. See under Bean. -- Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Simmonds. -- Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence.
  • WINDING
    A call by the boatswain's whistle.
  • WIND-BREAK
    A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • WINDOW
    The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King. French window , a casement window in two folds,
  • WINDFALL
    1. Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden." Bacon. 2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
  • WINDER
    A blow taking away the breath.
  • WINDFALLEN
    Blown down by the wind.
  • WINDOWY
    Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Donne.
  • BROKEN WIND
    The heaves.
  • THICK WIND
    A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
  • WHIRLWIND
    1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • UP-WIND
    Against the wind.
  • THICK-WINDED
    Affected with thick wind.
  • DRUM WINDING
    A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.
  • DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
    A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
  • DWINDLEMENT
    The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. Mrs. Oliphant.
  • SWINDLER
    One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
  • OUTWIND
    To extricate by winding; to unloose. Spenser. Dr. H. More.

 

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