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winded |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound) (rarely {Winded}); p. pr & vb n. {Winding}.] [OE. winden, AS windan; akin to OS windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf {Wander}, {Wend}.] 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. [Obs.] --Clarendon. {To wind up}. a To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. b To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. c 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. d To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it ``Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.'' --Waller. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From {Wind}, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound), R. {Winded}; p. pr & vb n. {Winding}.] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. ``Hunters who wound their horns.'' --Pennant. Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. --Pope. That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W. Scott. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winded}; p. pr & vb n. {Winding}.] 1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. 2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as the hounds winded the game. 3. a To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. b To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. {To wind a ship} (Naut.), to turn it end for end so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: winded adj : breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: {blown}, {gasping}, {out of breath(p)}, {panting}, {pursy}, {short-winded}]
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