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(Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.

A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.

Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.

A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` (#), a.

A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. [Slang.]

A stem-winding watch. [Colloq.]

Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.

To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle.

One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.

Swindling; rougery. [R.] "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.

A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.

Affected with thick wind.

To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

Against the wind.

To wind up. Spenser.

A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection currents over hot lava.

A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods. And drowns the villages. Bryant.

A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). He bare a burden ybound with a broad list, In a withewyndes wise ybounden about. Piers Plowman.

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.