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Dr. H. More. 9t. To contrive by resort to shifts and expedients (to effect something); bring; procure or get by devious ways. Wee'll haue some trick and wile To winde our yonger brother out of prison That lies in for the Rape. Tourneur , Revenger's Tragedy, iii. 1. He with his former dealings had wound in what money he had in ye partnership into his owne hands. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 301. 10t. To circulate; put or keep in circulation. Amongst the rest of the Plantations all this Summer little was done but securing themselues and planting Tobacco, which pa es there as current Siluer, and by the oft turning and winding it some grow rich, but many Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 89. poore. There is no State that winds the Penny more nimbly, and makes quicker Returns [than Lucca). Howell, Letters, I. i. 41. 11. To adjust or dispose for work or motion by coiling a spring more tightly or otherwise turning some mechanical device: as, to wind a clock or a watch. See to wind up ( f ), below. When he wound his clock on Sunday nights the whirr of that monitor reminded the widow to wind hers. T. Hardy , Trumpet-Major, iii. To wind a ship, to bring it round until the head occupies the place where the stern was. - To wind off, to unwind; uncoil. - To wind up. (a) To coil up into a small compa , as a skein of thread; form into a ball or coil round a bobbin, reel, or the like. Hence (b) To bring to a final disposition or conclusion; finish; arrange and adjust for final settlement, as the affairs of a company or partnership on its di olution. I could not wind it [the discourse] up closer.