Windy
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Consisting of wind; as a windy
tempest.
2. Next the wind; as the windy side.
5. Empty;
airy; as windy joy.
Windy
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To turn; to change.
2. So swift your judgments turn and wind.
3. To turn around something; as, vines wind around a pole.
4. To have a circular direction; as winding stairs.
5. To
crook; to bend. The road winds in various places.
6. To move round; as, a
hare pursued turns and winds.
8. Long labring
underneath,
ere they could wind out of such prison.
Windy
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1.
preterit tense and participle passive wound. [G.]
2. To blow; to sound by blowing or
inflation.
4. To turn; to move, or cause to turn.
6. 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.
7. To introduce by
insinuation. The child winds himself into my affections.
8. They have little arts and dexterities to wind in such things into discourse.
9. To change; to vary.
10. Were our legislature
vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
12. [With I short, as in
win.] To nose; to perceive or to follow by the
scent; as,
hounds wind an animal.
14. To wind off, [with I long.] To unwind.
16. To wind up,
17. To bring to a small compass, as a ball of thread.
18. To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up ones affairs.
19. To put in a state of
renovated or continued motion.
20. Fate seemd to wind him up for
fourscore years.
21. To wind up a clock, is to wind the cord by which the weights are suspended, round an axis or pin.
22. To wind up a watch, is to wind the spring round its axis or pin.
23. To raise by degrees.
24. Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch--
26. To put in order for regular action.
Windy
[Superlative]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.
4. Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines;
flatulent; as, windy food.
5. Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.
