Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain

Ezek. xxxvii. 9. 3. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action: as, the wind of a bellows; the wind of a bullet or a cannon-ball (see windage ). Which he disdaining whisked his sword about, And with the wind thereof the king fell down. Marlowe and Nashe , Tragedy of Dido, ii. 1. The whiff and wind of his fell sword. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 495. 4. Air impregnated with animal odor or scent. Else counsellors will but take the wind of him. Bacon , Of Counsel. Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind . Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 357. 6. Breath; also, power of respiration; lung power. See second wind , below. Ye no ye me soore in wastyng al this wynde , For I haue seide y-nog he, as seme the me. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 79. My wynde is stoppyd, gon is my brethe. Coventry Mysteries , p. 226. Woman, thy word is and thy wynde thou not waste. York Plays , p. 258. If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 5. 104. How they spar for wind , instead of hitting from the shoulder. O. W. Holmes, Profe or, ii. 7. The part of the body in the region of the stomach, a blow upon which causes a tempo IMG:content-2410.png:[blocks in formation] 11. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. - A capful of wind. See capful . - A fair wind, a wind that enables a sailing ship to head her course with the sails full. - All in the wind. See all . A sheet in the wind. See sheet1. - Bare windt. See bare1 .-Before the wind. See before. - Between wind and water. (a) In that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above the water by the rolling of the ve el or by fluctuation of the water's surface.