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(gerund of)
The act of (l).
The act of blowing air through a instrument or a horn to make a sound.
(RQ:Sandys Journey)
(RQ:Berkeley Alciphron)
(RQ:Scott Woodstock)
Causing one to be breathless or of breath.
Of a horn or instrument: blown to make a sound.
(infl of)
The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
(RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz) a vast deal of screwing and tightening, and winding and tuning, during which Mrs. Briggs expatiated to those near her on the immense difficulty of playing a guitar, and hinted at the wondrous proficiency of her daughters in that mystic art.
(RQ:Latimer Sermons)
(RQ:Gaskell Charlotte Bronte)
A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World)
(RQ:Augustine City of God)
(RQ:Homer Chapman Odysseys)
(RQ:Moxon Mechanick Exercises)
(RQ:Congreve Double Dealer)
(RQ:Defoe New Voyage) at the Reaches and VVindings of the Rivers or Brooks, Falls of VVater, and every thing remarkable; (..)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(RQ:Southey Thalaba)
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=American Library|The New American Library|year=1966|section=part 1 (America)|page=44|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/trustnovel00ozic/page/44/mode/1up|passage=My mother’s pale arms emerged from the windings of her sheets and flailed in the air; her mouth chattered like a motor.
(RQ:Atwood Handmaid)
''Chiefly followed by'' up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
(RQ:Young Love of Fame)
''Sometimes followed by'' up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)
(RQ:Barrow Evil-Speaking)
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 3)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
(RQ:T. S. Eliot Prufrock)
Something wound around another thing.
(RQ:Milton Poems)
(senseid) A length of wire wound around the armature of an motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
(synonym of)
A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
(synonym of) or (l); also, all the withies used to make or repair a wall, or the process of using withies in this manner.
(RQ:Purchas Pilgrimage)&93; vvindes himſelfe into this vvinding Beaſt, diſpoſing the ''Serpents'' tongue to ''ſpeake to the vvoman'' &91;(w)&93; (..)
(RQ:Quarles Samson) / The ſuck-egge ''VVeaſell'', and the vvinding ''Svvallovv'', / From theſe ſhe ſhall abſtaine, and not unhallovv / Her op'ned lips vvith their polluted fleſh; (..)
(RQ:Dryden Aeneis)'s&93; vvaſte their vvinding Volumes rovvl'd, / And tvvice about his gaſping Throat they fold.
(RQ:Clare Rural Life)
(RQ:Ascham Toxophilus) a payre of windinge prickes, and many other thinges mo, which you ſhall marke yourſelfe, and as ye knovv them, ſo learne to amende them.
(RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona) / And ſo by many vvinding nookes he ſtraies / VVith vvilling ſport to the vvilde Ocean.
(RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes)
(RQ:Bacon Henry 7), ſhould kill the true ''Tree'' it ſelfe.
(RQ:Evelyn Diary) Robert Clayton to Marden, an estate he had bought lately of my kinsman S(sup) John Evelyn of Godstone in Surrey, which from a despicable farme house S(sup) Robert had erected into a seate with extraordinary expence. 'Tis in such a solitude among hills, as being not above 16 miles from London, seems almost incredible, the ways up to it so winding and intricate.
(RQ:Dryden Aeneis)
(RQ:Cowper Poetical Works)
(RQ:Radcliffe Udolpho)
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)
(quote-journal)
(RQ:Evelyn Diary) Cour aux Thuilleries is a princely fabriq; the winding geometrical stone stayres, with the cupola, I take to be as bold and noble a piece of architecture as any in Europ of the kind.
(RQ:Moxon Mechanick Exercises) If you dravv Lines from the Center through every one of the equal parts of into the Circumference, the ſpace betvveen every tvvo Lines vvill be the true Figure of a ''VVinding Step''.
(RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop)
Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or the point; rambling, roundabout.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Munday et al Thomas More)
(RQ:Camden Holland Britain)
(RQ:Marcellinus Holland Roman Historie)
(RQ:Stanley History of Philosophy) of (w). Added (not as a Comicall Divertisement for the Reader, who can Expect Little in that Kind from a Subject so Antient, and Particular, but) as a Necessary Supplement to the Life of Socrates|subsection=Act I, scene iii|page=76|passage=I care not though men call me impudent, / Smooth-tongu'd, audacious, petulant, abhominable, / Forger of vvords and lie, contentious Barretour, / Old, vvinding, bragging, teſty, crafty fox.