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English Dictionary: upwind by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
upwind
adv
  1. toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn: leeward, upwind]
    Antonym(s): downwind, windward
  2. in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind"
    Synonym(s): upwind, against the wind, into the wind
    Antonym(s): downwind
adj
  1. towards the side exposed to wind [syn: upwind, weather(a)]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv.
      Against the wind.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Upwind \Up*wind"\, v. t.
      To wind up. --Spenser.
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