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A gust of wind and rain. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. [U. S.]

The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast. [Obs.] A most tempestuous blore. Chapman.

To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows. Hark how it rains and blows ! Walton.

Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

osure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. Hakluyt.

To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. She comes booming down before it. Totten.

A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison.

cal cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson.

The north wind; -- usually a personification.

To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [Obs.] As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. Shak.

returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

ent (Mus.), any stringed instrument from which the tones are produced by the bow. -- Bow window (Arch.) See Bay window. -- To draw a long bow, to lie; to exaggerate. [Colloq.]

line knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.