Word Meanings - LABYRINTHIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

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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. ,
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• WIND-SUCKER
  The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• LABYRINTHIFORM
  Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
• 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;
• LABYRINTHIAN
  Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
• INTRICATELY
  In an intricate manner.
• 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.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. 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
• 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.