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. - 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; - WINDBOUND
prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound. - 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.