'To wind out' definitions:
Definition of 'To wind out'
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- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle. [1913 Webster]
- Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick. [1913 Webster]
- Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. [1913 Webster]
- You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To wind out'
- All in the wind,
- Before the wind,
- Down the wind,
- To be in the wind,
- To have the wind,
- To wind off,
- To wind up,
- Wind,
- Winded,
- Winding,
- Windingly,
- against the wind,
- in the wind,
- into the wind,
- wind off,
- wind up,
- winds,
- A beating wind,
- A capful of wind,
- A sheet in the wind,
- Baffling wind,
- Between wind and water,
- Both sheets in the wind,
- Broken wind,
- Cardinal winds,
- Close to the wind,
- Cross wind,
- Dead wind,
- Down-wind,
- Drum winding,
- Fore wind,
- Head wind,
- In the eye of the wind,
- In the wind's eye,
- Land wind,
- Near the wind,
- On the wings of the wind,
- Ring winding,
- Series winding,
- Shunt winding,
- Side wind,
- Slant or wind,
- Thick wind,
- To break wind,
- To carry the wind,
- To gain the wind,
- To get wind,
- To haul the wind,
- To raise the wind,
- To take the wind,
- To take wind,
- To touch the wind,
- To wind a ship,
- Trade wind,
- Up-wind,
- Volcanic wind,
- Wind Gap,
- Wind Lake,
- Wind Point,
- Wind band,
- Wind chest,
- Wind colic,
- Wind dropsy,
- Wind egg,
- Wind furnace,
- Wind gauge,
- Wind gun,
- Wind hatch,
- Wind instrument,
- Wind pump,
- Wind rose,
- Wind rush,
- Wind sail,
- Wind shake,
- Wind shock,
- Wind side,
- Wind signal,
- Wind wheel,
- Wind-up,
- Winding engine,
- Winding sheet,
- Winding tackle,
- Wood wind,
- antitrade wind,
- break wind,
- breaking wind,
- catabatic wind,
- chinook wind,
- east wind,
- field winding,
- gentle wind,
- get wind,
- high wind,
- katabatic wind,
- long winded,
- north wind,
- northwest wind,
- prevailing wind,
- primary winding,
- second wind,
- secondary winding,
- solar wind,
- south wind,
- straw in the wind,
- tail wind,
- west wind,
- wind bell,
- wind chime,
- wind cone,
- wind deflection,
- wind exposure,
- wind farm,
- wind gage,
- wind generation,
- wind generator,
- wind harp,
- wind park,
- wind poppy,
- wind power,
- wind scale,
- wind sleeve,
- wind sock,
- wind tee,
- wind tunnel,
- wind turbine,
- wind vane,
- Broken-winded,
- Long-winded,
- Short-winded,
- Stem-winding,
- Thick-winded,
- Three sheets in the wind,
- To eat the wind out of a vessel,
- Wind Gap, PA,
- Wind Lake, WI,
- Wind Point, WI,
- Wind-break,
- Wind-broken,
- Wind-fertilized,
- Wind-plant,
- Wind-rode,
- Wind-shaken,
- Wind-sucker,
- Wind-sucking,
- ill-wind,
- long-windedly,
- pinwheel wind collector,
- self-winding,
- wind energy facility,
- winding-clothes,
- winding-sheet,
- To take the wind out of one's sails,
- wind cave national park