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7. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,
which are often called the four winds.
Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. Ezek. xxxvii. 9. This sense seems to have had its origin in the East. The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal
points the name of wind.
8. (Far.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a
violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
Nor think thou with wind
Of airy threats to awe. Milton. 10. (Zoöl.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]
Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words.
All in the wind. (Naut.) See under All, n. — Before the wind. (Naut.) See under Before. —
Between wind and water (Naut.), in that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought
above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an
injury to that part of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous) the vulnerable part or point
of anything. — Cardinal winds. See under Cardinal, a. - - Down the wind. (a) In the direction
of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of
decay. [Obs.] "He went down the wind still." L'Estrange. — In the wind's eye (Naut.), directly toward
the point from which the wind blows. — Three sheets in the wind, unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang]
— To be in the wind, to be suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.]
— To carry the wind (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the ears, as a horse. — To raise the wind,
to procure money. [Colloq.] — To take, or have, the wind, to gain or have the advantage. Bacon.
— To take the wind out of one's sails, to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts
the wind of another. [Colloq.] — To take wind, or To get wind, to be divulged; to become public; as,
the story got wind, or took wind. — Wind band (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military band; the
wind instruments of an orchestra. — Wind chest (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an organ.
— Wind dropsy. (Med.) (a) Tympanites. (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue. —
Wind egg, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg. — Wind furnace. See the Note under
Furnace. — Wind gauge. See under Gauge. — Wind gun. Same as Air gun. — Wind hatch
(Mining), the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth. — Wind instrument (Mus.),
an instrument of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a flute, a clarinet,
etc. — Wind pump, a pump moved by a windmill. — Wind rose, a table of the points of the compass,
giving the states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different directions. — Wind
sail. (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into
the lower compartments of a vessel. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill. — Wind shake, a crack or
incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while the timber was growing. — Wind shock, a
wind shake. — Wind side, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.] Mrs. Browning. — Wind
rush (Zoöl.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.] — Wind wheel, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind.
— Wood wind (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an orchestra, collectively.
Wind
(Wind) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.]
1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
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