WIND
- breath or breathing
- to pass around an object or fixed center [v WINDED, WINDING, WINDS, WOUND] : WINDABLE [adj], WINDINGLY [adv]
- air in motion
- the wind instruments in an orchestra
- hint or intimation
- gas in the stomach or intestines
- to make short of breath
- to follow by scent
- to have or take a curving or spiral course
- to wrap around
- to roll (thread, yarn, etc.) into a ball or on a spool
- to tighten the spring of (a clock, toy, etc.)
- turn or bend
- West Indian
- about to occur
- to twist or coil [v WINDED, WOUND, WINDING, WINDS]
- (of boards, plasterwork, etc.) flat and true
- to lessen in intensity so as to bring or come to a gradual end
- to calm down; relax
- to bring or come to an end
- to excite