A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
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The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince.
A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel.
To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse.
Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
A windflower.
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.
Shaken by the wind; affected by wind shake, or anemosis (which see, above).
A horse given to wind-sucking
A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4.
Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end.
See 3d Windlass.
The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
To wither; to fail.
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.
Blown down by the wind.
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.
A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
In a winding manner.
A sailing vessel or one of its crew; -- orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels.
See Windlass.
To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
Having no wind; calm.
A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.
A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.
A window.
Having windows or openings.
Destitute of a window.
See Pane, n., (3) b.
Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.
A town in Berkshire, England.
A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.
Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
The red currant. The bilberry. A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.
One who drinks much wine.
A small glass from which to drink wine.
destitute of wine; as, wineless life.
A place where grapes are converted into wine.
A variety of winter apple of medium size, deep red color, and yellowish flesh of a rich, rather subacid flavor.
To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
To perform an act, such as to give a speech, without the usual preparation. To improvise or ad-lib.
Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus. Any pteropod shell.
Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
A little wing; a very small wing.
Power or skill in flying.
Having wings; rapid.
The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
One who winks.
In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.
Any periwinkle. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (Fulgar canaliculata, and Fulgar carica).
A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.
The redwing.
A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
In a winning manner.
The quality or state of being winning.
The land-locked variety of the common salmon.
To separate chaff from grain.
One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.
The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
A windrow.
Winsome.
The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner.
To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant.
Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.
To fallow or till in winter.
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
To die as the result of exposure to the cold of winter; as, the tree winterkills easily.
Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
Winter time.
A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.
Wintry.
Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery.
Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste.
A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation.
Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
One who, or that which, wipes.
To whirl; to eddy.
To work
To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
One who draws metal into wire.
A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.
One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends; an intriguer.
The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.
Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
One who manufactures articles from wire.
Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.
to tap{5} (a telephone or telegraph line) to get information surreptitiously; also, to obtain or record (information) by use of a wiretap.
Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.
One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub. A galleyworm.
The quality of being wiry.
The act of one that wires anything.
To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.
See Wizard.
Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent.
Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious.
One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom.
Wisdom.
Desire; eager desire; longing.
Any weak, thin drink.
Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.
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