windy

WINDY, adjective 1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest. 2. Next the wind; as the windy side. 3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather. 4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind. 5. Empty; airy; as windy joy. WIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive wound. [G.] 1. To blow; to sound by blowing or inflation. Wind the shrill horn. 2. To turn; to move, or cause to turn. To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus. 3. To turn round some fixed object; to bind, or to form into a ball or coil by turning; as, to wind thread on a spool; to wind thread into a ball; to wind a rope into a coil. 4. To introduce by insinuation. The child winds himself into my affections. They have little arts and dexterities to wind in such things into discourse. 5. To change; to vary. Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. 6. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle. 7. [With I short, as in win.] To nose; to perceive or to follow by the scent; as, hounds wind an animal. 8. To ventilate; to expose to the wind; to winnow. To wind off, [with I long.] To unwind. To wind out, to extricate. To wind up, 1. To bring to a small compass, as a ball of thread. 2. To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up ones affairs. 3. To put in a state of renovated or continued motion. Fate seemd to wind him up for fourscore years. To wind up a clock, is to wind the cord by which the weights are suspended, round an axis or pin. To wind up a watch, is to wind the spring round its axis or pin. 4. To raise by degrees. Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch-- 5. To straiten, as a string; to put in tune. 6. To put in order for regular action. WIND, verb intransitive 1. To turn; to change. So swift your judgments turn and wind. 2. To turn around something; as, vines wind around a pole. 3. To have a circular direction; as winding stairs. 4. To crook; to bend. The road winds in various places. 5. To move round; as, a hare pursued turns and winds. To wind out, to be extricated; to escape. Long labring underneath, ere they could wind out of such prison. WINDER, noun One who winds.