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Winding; having many turns.

Winding; flexuous.

; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.

Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, merry jest. "Merry wind and weather." Spenser. Merry dancers. See under Dancer. -- Merry men, followers; retainers. [Obs.] His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee. Chaucer. -- To make merry, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth.…

atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc.

A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm. Where only the wind signs miserere. Lowell.

A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.

Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind. By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. Arbuthnot. To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive. Spenser.

To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

Resembling the sails of a windmill.

utting. Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides.

A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October t…

A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H. Dana, Jr.

squito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. -- Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. -- Mosquito hawk (Zoöl.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes. -- Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito…

proverbially small; a speck. The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind. Bacon. We are motes in the midst of generations. Landor.

r. "Motive faculty." Bp. Wilkins. Motive power (Mach.), a natural agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to machinery; a motor; a mover.

A machine formerly used for bending a crossbow by winding it up.

on; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.