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Word Meanings - WIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan 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;

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G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan 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. "To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus." 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. Clarendon. -- To wind up. To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. 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. "Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years." Dryden. "Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch." Atterbury. To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. "Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute." Waller.

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  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • CONTORTION
    A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
  • EXHIBITION
    The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • EXHIBITIONER
    One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
  • WRESTLE
    1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
  • INTERPENETRATE
    To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • INVOLVEDNESS
    The state of being involved.
  • INFOLD
    1. To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore. 2. To clasp with the arms; to embrace. Noble Banquo, . . . let me infold thee, And hold
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • EXHIBIT
    A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence. (more info) 1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • GENTLE
    1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. Shak. 2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young. 3. To make kind and docile, as a horse.
  • WEAVER
    A weaver bird. (more info) 1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.
  • ENTWINEMENT
    A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.
  • CONVOLVE
    To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton. (more info) Etym:
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • WREATHLESS
    Destitute of a wreath.
  • SATIN WEAVE
    A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • SPANKING BREEZE
    a strong breeze.
  • UNWEAVE
    To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
  • INTERTWIST
    To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
  • UNTWIST
    1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
  • INTWINE
    To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.
  • DISENCUMBER
    To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.

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