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The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.

prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.

One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.

Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden." Bacon.

Blown down by the wind.

The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.

A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner. [Prov. Eng.]

The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.

A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. Milton.

In a winding manner.

An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument. [Slang]

See Windlass. [Obs.] Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels. Sir W. Scott.

A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.

A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.

Having no wind; calm.

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.

A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft. Chaucer.

A window. [Obs.] Hudibras.

t material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. I leaped from the window of the citadel. Shak. Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow. Milton.