Usurer

Is the winde in that doore? If thou hast my mony, so it is; I will not defer a day, an houre, a minute. Greene and Lodge, Looking-Gla for London and Eng. Leading wind. See leading1. - Mountain and valley winds, in meteor., diurnal winds blowing up the sides of mountains and the trough of valleys during the day, and See touch . - To whistle down the wind, to whistle for a wind. See whistle . - Wind-scale. See scales. =Syn. 1. Wind, Breeze, Gust, Flaw, Blast , Storm, Squall , Gale, Tempest , Hurricane , Tornado , Cyclone , etc. Wind is the general name for air in motion, at any rate of speed. A breeze is gentle and may be fitful; a gust is pretty strong, but especially sudden and brief; a flaw is e entially the same as gust , but may rise to the force of a squall ; a blast is stronger and longer than a gust ; a storm is a violent disturbance of the atmosphere, generally attended by rain, hail, or snow; a squall is a storm that begins suddenly and is soon over, perhaps consisting of a series of strong gusts ; a gale is a violent and continued wind , lasting for hours or days, its strength being marked by such adjectives as stiff and hard ; a tempest is the stage between a gale and a hurricane - hurricane being the name for the wind at its greatest height, which is such as to destroy buildings, uproot trees, etc. A tornado and a cyclone are by derivation storms in which the wind has a circular or rotatory movement (see defs.). wind2 (wind), v. t .; pret. and pp. winded (in some uses, erroneously, wound ), ppr. winding . [ , wynden (= MD. winden = OHG. winton ), expose to the wind, air; wind2 , n. With reference to blowing a horn, the verb wind2 , owing to the alternative (poetical) pron. wind, and prob. to some vague a ociation of a horn as being usually curved, with the verb wind1, has been confused with the verb wind , whence the irreg. pret. and pp. wound. It is po ible, however, that the irreg. pret. and pp. wound arose out of mere conformity with the other verb, as the pret. rang , pp. rung (instead of ringed ), of the verb ring2 , and the pret. wore, pp. worn , of the verb wear1 , arose out of conformity to similar forms of the similar verbs sing , swear, etc.] 1. To force wind through with the breath; blow; sound by blowing: as, to wind a horn: in this sense and the three fol. lowing pronounced wind. The last Miracle is the third time of Michaels winding his horne, when God shall bring forth all the lewes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 221. down during the night. They are due to differences of temperature arising from unequal heating and radiation, whereby the air at the summits of hills and mountains is heated during the day to a higher temperature than the air at the same level over the valleys or lowlands, causing IMG:content-2412.png:[blocks in formation] during the night the air at the summit is cooled wind-break As when two skilful hounds the lev'ret wind , Or chase thro' woods obscure the trembling hind. Pope , Iliad, x. 427. We winded them by our noses - their perfumes betrayed them. Johnson, Dryden. The last shot flying so close to Captain Portar that with the windage of the bullet his very hands had almost lost the sense of feeling. R. Peeke (Arber's Eng. Garner, L. 626). (c) The influence of the wind in deflecting a mi ile, as a ball or an arrow, from its direct path, or aside from the point or object at which it is aimed; also, the amount or extent of such deflection. (d) The play between the spindle of the De Bange gas-check and its cavity in the breech-screw: it is expre ed in decimal parts of an inch, and is measured by the difference between the diameters of the spindle and its cavity.-2. In surg . , same as wind -contusion. windas, winda (win'das), n . [Early mod. E. also windace , wyndace; , winda e , a windla , OF. guindas , guyndas , F. guindas ), windla , lit. a 'winding-beam,' = Icel. vindā , a rounded pole which can be wound round, windla , winden = Icel. vinda , wind (= E. wind ), + aes = Icel. ā , pole, main rafter, sail-yard, = Goth. ans , a beam. Hence, by confusion with wind la 1 , the modern form windla 2 .] 1t. Same as windla 2 .