Word Meanings - UNDULATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground. -- Un"du*la`ting*ly. adv.
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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. - WINDLACE
See SCOTT - WIND-SHAKEN
Shaken by the wind; specif. , - WINDBORE
The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted. - SERPENTINELY
In a serpentine manner. - ANGUILLIFORM
Eel-shaped. Note: The "Anguillæformes" of Cuvier are fishes related to thee eel. - WIND-SUCKER
The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law. - VERMICULAR
Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. "A twisted form vermicular." Cowper. - UNDULATORY
Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves. Undulatory theory, or Wave theory - 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. - SERPENTINE
A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich - COIL
1. A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound. The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree. W. Irving. 2. Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity. 3. A series of connected pipes in - 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. - 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. - CHOKING COIL
A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage. - 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 - UNCOIL
To unwind or open, as a coil of rope. Derham. - UP-WIND
Against the wind. - 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. - DWINDLEMENT
The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. Mrs. Oliphant.