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wind

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context countable uncountable English) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wind is a German musical group that mostly plays " schlager " music. The band is still active, more than 20 years after its foundation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"move by turning and twisting," Old English windan "to turn, twist, plait, curl, brandish, swing" (class III strong verb; past tense wand , past participle wunden ), from Proto-Germanic *windan "to wind" (cognates: Old Saxon windan , Old Norse vinda , Old ...

Usage examples of wind.

Two of the towers were ablaze, black smoke pouring from their arrow loops and twisting in the light wind as it rose into the sky.

Give me the Saltings of Essex with the east winds blowing over them, and the primroses abloom upon the bank, and the lanes fetlock deep in mud, and for your share you may take all the scented gardens of Sinan and the cups and jewels of his ladies, with the fightings and adventures of the golden East thrown in.

It bore both the rich aroma of leaves being burnt in the fall and the faint perfume of wildflowers ablow in the spring, but it also held a third attar which seemed to be the breath of the Wind itself which none could ever set name to.

The wind gusted: canvas shook to a wind so hard and sand-edged it abraded his exposed hands.

Memphis had pursued its winding course through an alluvial country, made when abreast of Vicksburg a sharp turn to the northeast, as though determined to reach the bluffs but four miles distant.

The wound was still abscessed, its dressing changed twice a day, but now Harper and Isabella had to wipe the sweat that poured from Sharpe and listen to the ravings that he muttered day and night.

The reason given for this change of form was that it more conveniently allowed the lower road to pass between the springings and ensured the transmission of the wind stresses to the abutments without interrupting the cross-bracing.

Arums and acanthus and ivy filled every hollow, roses nodded from over every gate, while a carpet of violets and cyclamen and primroses stretched over the fields and freighted every wandering wind with fragrance.

The tornado of wind whistled loudly around us and up into the heavens, almost knocking Adeem off his feet.

He was in the cedar parlour, that adjoined the great hall, laid upon a couch, and suffering a degree of anguish from his wound, which few persons could have disguised, as he did.

Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb-- one engaged forward and the other aft--the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.

It did not cost me much to get wind of the adventurer, but I felt angry that he had had the impudence to try and dupe me.

One of my few authenticated pieces of aeronautical information said that a plane must land into the wind.

But the storm came up sharper than ever that evening, and even had he wished to, Roy would have found it impossible to handle the aeroplane alone in the heavy wind that came now in puffs and now in a steady gale.

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.