WIND.
() fTo make up as the conclusion or final
to bring to a close or conclusion ;
scene (0t>s.)
to form the conclusion of, be the final event in.
1740 RICHARDSON Pamela II. 17, 1 shall be better directed
in what manner to wind up the Catastrophe of the pretty
Novel 1759 STERNE Tr. Shandy I. xii, To wind up the last
scene of thy tragedy, Cruelty and Cowardice.. shall strike
1821 SCOTT
together at all thy infirmities and mistakes.
which the whole
Drydens^ WKS. VIII. 454 The moral, by
Masque is winded up, was sadly true. 1833 T. HOOK Parson's Dan. vii, Her ladyship was winding up the day with
her accustomed bottle of soda-water. 1848 THACKERAY Van.
Fair xliv, Sobs and tears wound up the sentence in a storm.
igia World 7 May 685/1 An^eyening party on Saturday
wound up the season's entertaining.
U} To put in order and settle (an affair) with
the view of bringing it to an end ; to bring to a
final settlement ; spec, to arrange and adjust the
affairs of (a company or business concern) on its
also absoL
dissolution
be
1780 Mirror No. 97 F 7 Some company concerns to
wound up, or some bottomry-accompt to be adjusted. 1794
Writ. (1832) II. 458, I have
GOVR. MORRIS in Sparks Life
some affairs in London which I wish to wind up. 1848
DICKENS Dombey Iviii, It was understood that the affairs of
the House were to be wound up as they best could be. 1875
Economist 30 Jan. 131/2 The Master of the Rolls has made
an order to wind-up, and has appointed Mr. John Smith.
official liquidator.
1893 SARAH O. JEWETT Deephaven 213
He was trading up to Parsonsfield, and business run down,
he
wound
so
up there, and thought he'd make a new start.
was
1924 MACKAIL in Prcc. Class. Aswc. 13 The Association
never formally wound up and still technically existed.
To
the
bring
proceeding to
(d} absol. or intr.
a close; to come to a close; to conclude with
to perceive (an animal, a person, or thing) by the
scent conveyed by the wind.
In quot. 1607, to pert Occas. with obj. clause and absol.
ceive (a sound) conveyed by the wind, to hear.
c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) vi, f>e wolfe is so
maliciouse, when he seeth hir comme withoute fedynge, J>at
he goth wynde at hir musel. And if he wynde here she
hath brought any thynge, he..biteth her.
Ibid., Somme
I
;
<$
;
j
.
t
e. In reference to a watch, etc. : see 20 b.
A', n. v. 66, I frowne the while, and
perchance winde vp rny watch. 1639 Cretttree Lect, 41
Gladly he would have interrupted her,.. but the Jacke was
woond up, and downe it must. 1648 WILKISS Math, Magick
i. xix. (1707) 80 These Mathematical Engines cannot be so
easily and speedily wound up, and so certainly levelled as
Sclv. 125 A Watch
the other may. 1674 N. FAIRFAX Bulk
or a Jack, by being only wown up [etc.].
1712 BUDGELL
Sped. No. 277 f 17 Another Puppet, which by the Help of
several little Springs to be wound up within it, could move
all its Limbs.
1761 CHURCHILL Poems, Night 83 Wound up
at twelve at noon, his clock goes right, Mine better goes
wound up at twelve at night. 1883 RITCHIE Bk. Silyls ii.
148 Climbing a ladder to wind up an old clock.
1601 SHAKS. Twel.
1
A
To
To
condition for running.
wits,
1605 SHAKS.
vp. 1609 B.
JONSON Sil. \\'om. v. i, His knights reformadoes are wound
up as high and insolent as ever they were. 1660 F. BROOKE
1706 SWIFT To Earlof PeterBoy, winde thy cornet.
borough 16 The Post-boy winds his Horn. 1746 COLLINS
Ode Evening ii Where the Beetle winds His small but
sullen Horn.
1789 G. KF.ATB Pcle-w Isl. 33 The boatswain
1790
called all hands out to work by winding his pipe.
PENNANT London 243 Hunters who wound their horns.
1810 SCOTT Leuiy of L. I. xvii. But scarce again his horn he
Ld. of Isles iv. xviii, That blast was winded
wound. 1814
1859 TENNYSON Pelleas 4 Et/arrt 371
by the King!
Gawain .raised a bugle hanging from his neck, And winded
Elaine
it.
169 Thither he made and wound the
1859
iii,
269 Having wound him up with good
1665 J. SPENCER Prodigies ii. (ed. 2) 136 These blind
..Powers must be. .perpetually woond up by an Hand of
Power and Counsel. 1748 RICHARDSON Clarissa (1768) VII.
20
passions are so wound up, that I am obliged either
to laugh or cry. 1739 GOLDSM. Voltaire Wks. (1289) 489/2
Voltaire seemed wound up to no other pursuit than that of
Ibid. 500/1 Our poet was at last wound up to the
poetry.
height of expectation. 1822 HAZLITT Table-t. II. vii. 176
He had wound himself up to the last pitch of expectation.
1843 R. J. GRAVES Syst. din. Afed. xxiii. 294 Ladies of
fashion use it constantly to wind themselves up, when reduced to a little below par. 1864 NEWMAN ApoL iv. (1904)
to wind
126/2 It is not at all easy (humanly speaking)
up^
'
an Englishman to a dogmatic level. 1871 M. LEGRAND*
Cambr. Freskm. 107 There's one that's what we call wound
up ; going to run next week in a big handicap. 1880 A. H,
HUTH Buckle II. 257 Mr. Buckles interjections come in
very usefully to help Mr, Glennie along, and wind him up
when he has run down.
iigain, as it were,
7
aut. inir. and trans. See quots., and cf.
t g.
Le Blanc's Trav.
chear.
My
.
gateway horn.
b. To blow (a blast, call, or note) on a horn, etc,
I will haue
1599 SHAKS. Much Ado i. i. 243 But that
a rechate winded in my forehead. 1735 SOMEHVILLE Chase
solemn Dirge.
II. 292 With Cheeks full-blown they wind Her
a. Call, the
1769 FALCONER Did. Marine (1776), Winding
act of blowing or piping upon a boatswain's whistle. 1888
STEVENSON Black Arrow v. vi, He raised a little tucket to
his mouth and wound a rousing call.
O. absol. or intr. To blow a blast on a wind-
i
'
A
instrument.
Obs.
1600
"5 The
ship
a 1625 MANWAYRING Sea-mans
ride by her Anchor.
winds-up, that is, when she comes to
had neuer bin able to
1633 T. JAMES Voy. 10 This Anker
1
winde vp the Ship. 1639 [see WINDING vbl. sl>. i b]. 1691
have Water enough
'J'. H[ALE] A cc. New Invent, p. 1 v, Ships
to wind up with the Tide of flood. 1711 Milit. $ Sea Diet.
.
(ed.
4).
Forms: 5 wynde, 6-S winde, 6- wind. Pa. t. and
6- winded; 8-9 wound (see sense 3). [f.
pple.
WIND j/'.l
In ordinary prose use the pronunciation
(wind) except in sense 3, where it is (woind).]
I.
1.
From WIND j.l I.
To get the wind
trans.
of
(WiND
st>.
1
4)
;
HOLLAND Lh-y
cornetiers. .to
n. Ixiv. 86 Quintius. .caused certaine
wind and sound before the trench.
d. trans. To supply (an organ-pipe) with wind
a particular pressure.
to match
1879 Organ Voicing 28 They must be winded
at
.
Wind (wind, waind),^. 2 Pa.t. and pple. winded.
is
.
To
set in readiness for action ; to raise
f. fg.
now usually, to put
(feeling) to a high degree ;
into a state of tension or intensity of feeling, etc. ;
to excite ; to brace up ; in Racing slang, to put
Diet. (1644)
sensible
whatever he winded.
fault,
.
strings of thy Lute.
19 b (b\
Any
OJfriugitur agcr, the land is winded, fallowed, or twise
laboured ouer. 1871 SMYTH Mining Stat. 64 As Mr. Spear
other 16
says, 'he leaves the air to wind the ground the
hours '.
'take wind', become tainted by exb. intr.
such exposure, dial.
posure to air ; trans, to taint by
handful of salt
1842 J. AITON Dent. Econ. (1857) 222
of
which
the
shaken on
keeps it from turning mouldy
it,
top
or winding. 1844 H. STEPHENS .*. Farm III. 905 If the
least cell of air be left in its mass. ..it will wind the butter.
sound by forcing the breath through,
3. trans.
to blow (a wind-instrument, esp. a horn).
In this sense often with pa. t, and pple. -wound, by confusion with WIND .', perh. due to vague suggestion from
the curved form of a horn or bugle.
was delighted
1586 [?J. CASE) Praise Mus. i. 17 Minerua
with her pipe, and vsed euen in the assemblie of the gods
Rev. l.
Antonio's
1602
MARSTON
very much to winde it.
winde vp, Of this childe-changed Father.
1645 WALLER
Chloris fy Hilas i. Poems 157 Winde up the slack'ned
8,
ii,
c 1440 Prc-mp.tParr. 529/1 Wyyndyd, ventilatus, Tel -i-ento
et aure expositus.
1585 HIGINS 'junius' Nomencl. 385/2
O
tr.
iv.
II. From WIND sb?- II.
2. trans. To expose to the wind or air; to dry
by such exposure, to air.
f (b} In reference to the strings of a musical
instrument (see 20 a) \ fig, to put in tune.
1605 SHAKS. Lear iv. vii. 16 Th'vntun'd and iarring senses,
your
Return fr. Partiass.
rt.
,$
a priest at a
<fr
all
2nd
or on scenting something.
Beasts 125
1410 [see above].
1607 TOPSRLL Four.f.
When a hart pricketh vp his eares he windcth sharpe. 1842
Palatine,
Sk.
Bk.
.suddenly
29
J. W. CARLETON Sporting
raised his head, winded high in the air, sprung over the
bushes, winded again, then leaped again.
C. Jig. (trans.} To perceive by some subtle
indication ; to get wind of, to smell or nose out.
1583 MELBANCKK Philotitnus Q iij, Philotimus winding
Aurelia to haue munched on this carrion.. trotted to her
lodging once or twise, where she would not be sene. 1596
SPENSER F. Q. v. ii. 25 Talus, that could like a limehound
winde her. 1611 L. BARRY Ram Alley II. i, No nose to
1640 C. HARVEY
smell, and winde out all your tricks.
Synagogue, Search ii, My senses are too weake to wind
him. a 1641 FINETT O'oserv. (1656) 13, 1 winding the cause
to be some new buz, gotten into his Braine.
1779-81
JOHNSON L. P., Pope Wks. IV. 51 A cat, hunted for his
musk, is according to Pope's account, but the emblem of
a wit winded by booksellers. 1829 I.ANDOR Imag. Ctinv.
Pclrarca 226, I never knew
Ser. n. I. Chaucer, Boccaccio,
1825 T. HOOK Sayings Ser. 11, Passion <$ Princ. x. III. 185
And a dish of maccaroni to wind up with. 1835 DICKENS
Sk. B0z, Astley's One of the little boys wound up_by
'
expressing his opinion, that George began to think himLett. (1880) I. 396, I want
self quite a man now '.
1855
1882 E. ODoNOVAN
to wind up with that popular farce.
Jferv Oasis I. 329 An extreme amount of fever, winding up
with delirium on the fifth day.
MARSTOM Antonio's Rev. iv. Hi, Straine
winde up invention Unto his highest bent.
Macb. I. iii. 37 Peace, the Charme's wound
'
[
may winde M. Amoretto and his Pomander. 1607
TOPSELL Four-f. Beasts 584 The greedy beast winding the
voice of the Dogge. 1644 DIGBY Nat. ffffetiaxxm.
7. 248
He could att a great distance wind by his nose, where wholesome fruites or rootes did grow. 1726 POPE Odyss. xvn. 385
His scent how true, To winde the vapour in the tainted
dew. 1850 R. G. GUMMING Hunter's Life S. Afr. xxii. II.
126 Soon after fourteen buffaloes came; but .. they got
an alarm .. They had winded two lions. 1880 CARNEGIE
Pratt. Trap. 32 A good terrier, one which will wind, and,
if necessary, fight a fox.
1892 Field 7 May 695/1 Deuce
dropped to birds that got up as we entered, and Dulcimer
ran into a pair that she just winded before they rose.
b. intr. Of an animal : To sniff in order to scent
something.
1602
I
snout
;
fit
1602
off.
!
those below in strength.
spread
To blow
Ot>s. rare.
fire, etc.).
fire.. the which he hac
0_uc-rsit. n. vii, The
a 1660
vaine.
in
bellowsed
winded
or
and
abroad,
t 4. trans.
1605 TIMME
wind him yet.' 1857 G. A. LAWRENCE Guy Liv. ii. 9
A country.. where there was no hill steep enough to wind
a horse in good condition. 1888 R. BOLDREWOOQ' Robbery
under A rtns xx, He can't hardly keep from barking till he^'s
till he's
hoarse, and rushing through and over everything
winded and done up.
will
men seith pat she bateth..hir heede, because bat the wolfe
shulde wynde nothyng of hir fedynge whan she Cometh
agayne. 1580 LYLV Euphues (Arb.) 394 You might.. haue
tourned the Hare you winded, and caught the game you
coursed. 1583 GOLIJING Calvin on Dcut. xxiii. 6. 807/1 As
a swyne when he hath once winded hia meat, runnes on
to swash himself in it. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny xii. xxii.
I. 375 A man may wind the sent of it presently a great way
\.
(a race-horse) into
WINDAS.
158
(a
Contcmp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archzol. Soc.) I. 69 The frcshe
lime shaken and winded, filled the place with its smoke.
5. To deprive of 'wind' or breath, put out of
breath, 'blow ', 'puff.
1811 Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 18 Parkes was very faint,
and apparently quite winded.
1842 LOVER Handy A ndy
'Two to one on Dick he's closing.' 'Done! Andy
iii,
Wind,
Also 5-6
dial.
v.'J
8 Sc.
wynd,
winn.
[Perh. a us of WIND V? ; cf. OHG. wintSn (M HG.,
G. wiitden), Goth, diswinfjan to scatter like chaff
and OHG. -uiinta winnowing-fan).
(cf. -tvinfiskauro
LateNorthumb.7W7<*-,rare var. of w innung, wynnung,
appears to be unconnected, and tvinden in Ancr. R, (ed.
Morton) 270 is prob. an error for wind-wen.]
To winnow. Chiefly in vbl. sb. (attrit.).
Pan.
a 1500 '.Promf*.
529/1 Wynewynge, wythe wyynd
I. (Jam.
-vcntilacio. iSTfiAbcrd. Re*.
dycht. 1548, etc.
1825), And see the same bair wyndit
1578 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 783/1
[see WINDING-CLOTHS].
The beir granell, malt barne and windinhous. 1688 HOLME
Armoury HI. 74/1 Winnowing, Winding or Haveing. 1733
XV
(K.,t\ wyndynge),
&
BUDGELL Bee No. 7. I. 293 Their Mother coming home
at this
presently after from winding of Corn, affrighted
had in
ragical Scene, threw the winding Cloth which she
ler Hand into the Cradle where the youngest Child was
Halloween
BURNS
1785
asleep, and smother'd it unawares.
xx i, Meg fain wad to the barn gaen To winn three wechts
1847 HALLIWELL, ll-'imi ,.1'a winnow corn.
o'naething.
Devon. 1869 PEACOCK Lonsdale Class. 1891 Hartland
Class. s.v. (( 'init, Although winnin' or windin' by hand is
or winding-van.
obs. var.
Wind,
'WEND
D.l; var.\\'iNZ>.2; obs. Sc.
obs. pa. pple. of \\ IN
;
fAVorsoj*.
;
var.WvND.
the stem of WIND v. 1 in combination,
in a few obsolete compounds
f wind-clout (in
Wind- 1
,
:
Ormin winnJeclut), a swaddling-band f windhatch [HATCH st>. 1 5 b], an opening to a mine, at
which a winding appaiatus is fixed ; t wind-lift,
a windlass (in quot. Jig.)
f wind-rope, a rope
;
;
for winding or hoisting, used with a windlass.
c 1200 ORMIN 3320 & tar iho barr Allmahhtij Godd..&
wand himmsone l *winndeclut. 1671 Phil, Trans. VI. 2104
A Winder with two Keebles (great buckets made like a
barrel with iron hoops, placed just over the then termed
Wind Hatch). 01734 NORTH E.vam. n. v. I 64 (174) 354
The Author intends no Good in all this, but brings jt in as
a *Wind-lift to heave up a gross Scandal. 1359 in Pipe
Roll jS Edw. Ill m. 47 (P. R. O.) In diueisis_ Cabulis,
K. R. 43/6
*\Vyndropes, Caggyngcables. 1402 Ace. Exch.
m. 7 In ij hausers emptis pro j Wyndrope et j boltrope
lix s. vj. d.
the stem of WIND v.x in combination
,
winnowing-, as in wind-cloth, -screen, -sheet.
Wind- 2
=
1500 Orlus Vocat. (W. de W.) PP vj, ytntilabrunt,..*
clothe.
1563 In-j. in Trans. Cumb. t ll'est. Arch.
Soc. X. 32 Husbanure geie. ..vii steckes, one wyndcloythe.
//IM*. III. 125 After passing twice through
/Vac/.
MILLS
1763
the wind screen, that objection was entirely removed. 1891
wynde
llartland
Gloss.,
Win-shet, a winnowing-sheet.
"Windabout
WIND
(wai'ndiabuw),
v. 1
4 ABOUT
sb.
and
nonce-
a.
[&. sb. Sugaccent, b. adj. That
gested name for a circumflex
winds about, meandering.
We might
1589 PUTTENHAM Engl. Poesie II. vi. (Arb.) 92
Greek
very properly call him the (windabout) for so is the
word [Tepi(Tir^)x<i'oi]. 1889 GRETTON Memory's Haikback
stream.
windabout
The
erratic,
3*1
wd.
[f.
Windage
(wi-ndidj).
adv.']
[f.
WIND
i*. 1
+ -AGE.]
An
allowance of space (for expansion of gas
in firing) between the inner wall of a fire-arm and
the shot or shell with which it is charged measured by the difference of the diameters of the bore
1.
:
and the
shot.
1778 HUTTON in Phil.
1710 J. HARRIS Lex. Techn. II.
Trans. LXVIII. 84 It would also be an improvement to
for
so
diminish the windage;
doing, one third or more
by
x86o Aer.
of the quantity cf powder might be saved.
The
THOMSON Laws Th.
windage of a loose ball
17. 238
1
in the barrel of the piece.
2.
tion
Allowance made (esp. in shooting) for deflecfrom the direct course by the wind; such
deflection
itself.
nine the firing
1867 Morning Star 30 July 6 At half-past
commenced., but with a breeze almost too strong for accurate
'
:d.
1891
save a good deal of windage. 1898 W-Vs^w. Gaz.
is made.,
4/1 [Yachts in which] an innovation
head room with a minimum of windage.
giving a maximum of
1
WIND sb. 13 ; also, the friction of the air
3.
will..
26
May
=
upon a moving part of a machine.
To support
1889 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. n/i
the idea of injuries from the 'windage 'of halls. 1903 Nature
the
wasted
windage of fly-wheel
by
29 Oct. 635/1 The power
and dynamo armatures.
Windar,
var.
tWindaS.
WINDER
Obs.
sb.^,
widgeon.
Forms: 3-6 wyndas
(3-5
4-6 -aee, 5 -asse, 5-6 -es, 6 -ease,
Sc.
-ys, -ais), 4-7 windas, (6 -is, -ose, -ecus,
6
-ois, 6-7 -es, 7 -us, -owes); 5 weyndas,
wendess. [a. AF. windas = OF. guindas (latin-ase, 4 -az,
ized wind-, guindasitim, -agiuni), a.
MLG., MDu., Du.
WIND v. 1 + dss (= Goth, atis)
=
WINDLASS rf. 1 i.
1.
(whence
[cuSo
in
ON. mnddss
windas),
f.
vinda
pole.]
Materials Hist. Thos. Becket (Rolls)
I.
300