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

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

Of or pertaining to the windpipe.

The trachea or windpipe. [Obs.] "Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach." Holland.

A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

ia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.

The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammal…

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.

To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the clos…

To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe.

To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother. Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. Shak.

Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

alyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably.

The windpipe. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.