Windy
WINDY, adjective
1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest.
2. Next the wind; as the windy side.
3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather.
4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind.
5. Empty; airy; as windy joy.
WIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive wound. [G.]
1. To blow; to sound by blowing or inflation.
Wind the shrill horn.
2. To turn; to move, or cause to turn.
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.
3. To turn round some fixed object; to bind, or to form into a ball or coil by turning; as, to wind thread on a spool; to wind thread into a ball; to wind a rope into a coil.
4. To introduce by insinuation. The child winds himself into my affections.
They have little arts and dexterities to wind in such things into discourse.
5. To change; to vary.
Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
6. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
7. [With I short, as in win.] To nose; to perceive or to follow by the scent; as, hounds wind an animal.
8. To ventilate; to expose to the wind; to winnow.
To wind off, [with I long.] To unwind.
To wind out, to extricate.
To wind up,
1. To bring to a small compass, as a ball of thread.
2. To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up ones affairs.
3. To put in a state of renovated or continued motion.
Fate seemd to wind him up for fourscore years.
To wind up a clock, is to wind the cord by which the weights are suspended, round an axis or pin.
To wind up a watch, is to wind the spring round its axis or pin.
4. To raise by degrees.
Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch--
5. To straiten, as a string; to put in tune.
6. To put in order for regular action.
WIND, verb intransitive
1. To turn; to change.
So swift your judgments turn and wind.
2. To turn around something; as, vines wind around a pole.
3. To have a circular direction; as winding stairs.
4. To crook; to bend. The road winds in various places.
5. To move round; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
To wind out, to be extricated; to escape.
Long labring underneath, ere they could wind out of such prison.
WINDER, noun One who winds.