Word Meanings - CREEKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.

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• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• WIND-SUCKER
  The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law.
• WINDINESS
  1. The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. 2. Fullness of wind; flatulence. 3. Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. 4. Tumor;
• WINDBOUND
  prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
• CREEKS
  A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• WINDSOR
  A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. See under Bean. -- Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Simmonds. -- Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence.
• WINDING
  A call by the boatswain's whistle.
• WIND-BREAK
  A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• WINDOW
  1. To furnish with windows. 2. To place at or in a window. Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck Shak.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. 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
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• UP-WIND
  Against the wind.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• DRUM WINDING
  A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.