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Windlace
n. & v.
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See Windlass.
Windlass
n.
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A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
Windlass
v. i.
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To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
Windlass
n.
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A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
Windlass
n.
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An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
Windlass
v. t. & i.
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To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
Windle
n.
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The redwing.
Windless
a.
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Having no wind; calm.
Windless
a.
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Wanting wind; out of breath.
Windlestrae
n.
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Alt. of Windlestraw
Windlestraw
n.
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A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.
Windmill
n.
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A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.
Windore
n.
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A window.
Window
n.
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An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
Window
n.
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The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
Window
n.
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A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
Windowed
imp. & p. p.
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of Window
Windowing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Window
Window
v. t.
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To furnish with windows.
Window
v. t.
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To place at or in a window.
Windowed
a.
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Having windows or openings.
Windowless
a.
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Destitute of a window.
Windowpane
n.
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See Pane, n., (3) b.
Windowpane
n.
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A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
Windowy
a.
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Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
Windpipe
n.
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The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Wind-plant
n.
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A windflower.
Wind-rode
a.
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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.
Windrow
n.
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A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
Windrow
n.
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Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them.