Word Meanings - WINDLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
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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. , - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - WINDBORE
The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted. - CIRCUITOUS
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. - COURSED
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry. - COURSE
1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. - 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. - SHIFTER
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. (more info) - 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. - SHIFTLESS
Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless - WIND-BREAK
A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. - COURSEY
A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc. - 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. - RECOURSEFUL
Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton. - 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. - SHIFT
divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To - 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.