Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words.
All in the wind. (Naut.) See under All, n. — Before the wind. (Naut.)
See under Before. — Between wind and water (Naut.), in that part of a
ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the
rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface. Hence,
colloquially, (as an injury to that part of a vessel, in an engagement,
is particularly dangerous) the vulnerable part or point of anything. —
Cardinal winds. See under Cardinal, a. - - Down the wind. (a) In the
direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the
wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] "He went
down the wind still." L'Estrange. — In the wind's eye (Naut.), directly
toward the point from which the wind blows. — Three sheets in the wind,
unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang] — To be in the wind, to be
suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise.
[Colloq.] — To carry the wind (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the
ears, as a horse. — To raise the wind, to procure money. [Colloq.] — To
take, or have, the wind, to gain or have the advantage. Bacon. — To
take the wind out of one's sails, to cause one to stop, or lose way, as
when a vessel intercepts the wind of another. [Colloq.] — To take wind,
or To get wind, to be divulged; to become public; as, the story got
wind, or took wind. — Wind band (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a
military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra. — Wind chest
(Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an organ. — Wind dropsy. (Med.)
(a) Tympanites. (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue. —
Wind egg, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg. — Wind furnace.
See the Note under Furnace. — Wind gauge. See under Gauge. — Wind gun.
Same as Air gun. — Wind hatch (Mining), the opening or place where the
ore is taken out of the earth. — Wind instrument (Mus.), an instrument
of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath,
as a flute, a clarinet, etc. — Wind pump, a pump moved by a windmill. —
Wind rose, a table of the points of the compass, giving the states of
the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different
directions. — Wind sail. (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas,
used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower
compartments of a vessel. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill. — Wind
shake, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while
the timber was growing. — Wind shock, a wind shake. — Wind side, the
side next the wind; the windward side. [R.] Mrs. Browning. — Wind rush
(Zoöl.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.] — Wind wheel, a motor consisting of
a wheel moved by wind. — Wood wind (Mus.), the flutes and reed
instruments of an orchestra, collectively.