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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.

Having windows or openings. [R.] "Looped and windowed raggedness." Shak.

Destitute of a window. Carlyle.

See Pane, n., (3) b. [In this sense, written also window pane.]

Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. [R.] Donne.

The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them. [Eng.]

A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. (Bot.) See under Bean. -- Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Simmonds. -- Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence.