English Dictionary: winded | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Want \Want\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wanting}.] 1. To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing. They that want honesty, want anything. --Beau. & Fl. Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. --Milton. The unhappy never want enemies. --Richardson. 2. To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes. 3. To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave. [bd] What wants my son?[b8] --Addison. I want to speak to you about something. --A. Trollope. | |
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Wantwit \Want"wit`\, n. One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Wend \Wend\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wended}, Obs. {Went}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wending}.] [AS. wendan to turn, to go, caus. of windan to wind; akin to OS. wendian, OFries. wenda, D. wenden to turn, G. wenden, Icel. venda, Sw. v[84]nda, Dan. vende, Goth. wandjan. See {Wind} to turn, and cf. {Went}.] 1. To go; to pass; to betake one's self. [bd]To Canterbury they wend.[b8] --Chaucer. To Athens shall the lovers wend. --Shak. 2. To turn round. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
When \When\, adv. [OE. when, whan, whenne, whanne, AS. hw[91]nne, hwanne, hwonne; akin to OS. hwan, OD. wan, OHG. wanne, G. wann when, wenn if, when, Goth. hwan when, and to E. who. [?][?][?][?]. See {Who}.] 1. At what time; -- used interrogatively. When shall these things be? --Matt. xxiv. 3. Note: See the Note under {What}, pron., 1. 2. At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively. Kings may Take their advantage when and how they list. --Daniel. Book lore ne'er served, when trial came, Nor gifts, when faith was dead. --J. H. Newman. 3. While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in the grounds. 4. Which time; then; -- used elliptically as a noun. I was adopted heir by his consent; Since when, his oath is broke. --Shak. Note: When was formerly used as an exclamation of surprise or impatience, like what! Come hither; mend my ruff: Here, when! thou art such a tedious lady! --J. Webster. {When as}, {When that}, at the time that; when. [Obs.] When as sacred light began to dawn. --Milton. When that mine eye is famished for a look. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{To be in the wind}, to be suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.] {To carry the wind} (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the ears, as a horse. {To raise the wind}, to procure money. [Colloq.] {To} {take, [or] have}, {the wind}, to gain or have the advantage. --Bacon. {To take the wind out of one's sails}, to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another. [Colloq.] {To take wind}, or {To get wind}, to be divulged; to become public; as, the story got wind, or took wind. {Wind band} (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra. {Wind chest} (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an organ. {Wind dropsy}. (Med.) (a) Tympanites. (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue. {Wind egg}, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg. {Wind furnace}. See the Note under {Furnace}. {Wind gauge}. See under {Gauge}. {Wind gun}. Same as {Air gun}. {Wind hatch} (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth. {Wind instrument} (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a flute, a clarinet, etc. {Wind pump}, a pump moved by a windmill. {Wind rose}, a table of the points of the compass, giving the states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different directions. {Wind sail}. (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill. {Wind shake}, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while the timber was growing. {Wind shock}, a wind shake. {Wind side}, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.] --Mrs. Browning. {Wind rush} (Zo[94]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.] {Wind wheel}, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind. {Wood wind} (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an orchestra, collectively. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound) (rarely {Winded}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] [OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. {Wander}, {Wend}.] 1. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball. Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton. 2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle. Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak. 3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. [bd]To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.[b8] --Shak. In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer. Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick. Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. --Addison. 4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak. Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --Gov. of Tongue. 5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. {To wind off}, to unwind; to uncoil. {To wind out}, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon. {To wind up}. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. [bd]Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.[b8] --Dryden. [bd]Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.[b8] --Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. [bd]Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.[b8] --Waller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From {Wind}, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound), R. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. [bd]Hunters who wound their horns.[b8] --Pennant. Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. --Pope. That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] 1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. 2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game. 3. (a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. (b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. {To wind a ship} (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Window frame}, the frame of a window which receives and holds the sashes or casement. {Window glass}, panes of glass for windows; the kind of glass used in windows. {Window martin} (Zo[94]l.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] {Window oyster} (Zo[94]l.), a marine bivalve shell ({Placuna placenta}) native of the East Indies and China. Its valves are very broad, thin, and translucent, and are said to have been used formerly in place of glass. {Window pane}. (a) (Arch.) See {Pane}, n., 3 (b) . (b) (Zo[94]l.) See {Windowpane}, in the Vocabulary. {Window sash}, the sash, or light frame, in which panes of glass are set for windows. {Window seat}, a seat arranged in the recess of a window. See {Window stool}, under {Stool}. {Window shade}, a shade or blind for a window; usually, one that is hung on a roller. {Window shell} (Zo[94]l.), the window oyster. {Window shutter}, a shutter or blind used to close or darken windows. {Window sill} (Arch.), the flat piece of wood, stone, or the like, at the bottom of a window frame. {Window swallow} (Zo[94]l.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] {Window tax}, a tax or duty formerly levied on all windows, or openings for light, above the number of eight in houses standing in cities or towns. [Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Window \Win"dow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Windowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Windowing}.] 1. To furnish with windows. 2. To place at or in a window. [R.] Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck? --Shak. | |
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Windowed \Win"dowed\, a. Having windows or openings. [R.] [bd]Looped and windowed raggedness.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Wont \Wont\, v. i. [imp. {Wont}, p. p. {Wont}, or {Wonted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wonting}.] To be accustomed or habituated; to be used. A yearly solemn feast she wont to make. --Spenser. | |
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Wonted \Wont"ed\, a. Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. --Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. --Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. --L'Estrange. | |
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Wontedness \Wont"ed*ness\, n. The quality or state of being accustomed. [R.] --Eikon Basilike. | |
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Wound \Wound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wounding}.] [AS. wundian. [fb]140. See {Wound}, n.] 1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like. The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. --1 Sam. xxxi. 3. 2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to. When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. --1 Cor. viii. 12. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wyandots \Wy`an*dots"\, n. pl.; sing. {Wyandot}. (Ethnol.) Same as {Hurons}. [Written also {Wyandottes}, and {Yendots}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wyandots \Wy`an*dots"\, n. pl.; sing. {Wyandot}. (Ethnol.) Same as {Hurons}. [Written also {Wyandottes}, and {Yendots}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wyandots \Wy`an*dots"\, n. pl.; sing. {Wyandot}. (Ethnol.) Same as {Hurons}. [Written also {Wyandottes}, and {Yendots}.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wounded Knee, SD (CDP, FIPS 72900) Location: 43.14248 N, 102.36463 W Population (1990): 18 (5 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57794 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wyandot County, OH (county, FIPS 175) Location: 40.84775 N, 83.30344 W Population (1990): 22254 (8596 housing units) Area: 1050.6 sq km (land), 5.2 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wyandotte, MI (city, FIPS 88900) Location: 42.21143 N, 83.15663 W Population (1990): 30938 (12822 housing units) Area: 13.7 sq km (land), 4.3 sq km (water) Wyandotte, OK (town, FIPS 82250) Location: 36.79286 N, 94.72323 W Population (1990): 366 (166 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74370 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Wyandotte County, KS (county, FIPS 209) Location: 39.11440 N, 94.76617 W Population (1990): 161993 (69102 housing units) Area: 392.1 sq km (land), 11.1 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
windoid n. In the Macintosh world, a style of window with much less adornment (smaller or missing title bar, zoom box, etc, etc) than a standard window. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
winnitude /win'*-t[y]ood/ n. The quality of winning (as opposed to {winnage}, which is the result of winning). "Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now the LISP interpreter runs twice as fast as it used to." "That's really great! Boy, what winnitude!" "Yup. I'll probably get a half-hour's winnage on the next run of my program." Perhaps curiously, the obvious antonym `lossitude' is rare. |