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De - Pt| English Dictionary: wind instrument | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for wind instrument | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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{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. | |
