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Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

Pertaining to a window or to windows.

Having windows; characterized by windows.

The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency.

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.

Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. Milton.

To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.

made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water.

e of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

Full; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial. [Obs.] A cold May and a windy Makes the barn fat amd findy. Old Prover

A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] Bacon.

, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

Windy; generating wind. [Obs.] Bacon.

A breath; a puff of wind. Clarke.

A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.