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To get wind

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   {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} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
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