Word Meanings - STEM-WINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stem-winding watch.

• Watchword
  A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.
• Windhover
  The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
• Windowy
  Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
• WINDBROKEN
  Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a ho
• Windiness
  The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.
• Windpipe
  The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
• WINDFERTILIZED
  Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
• Winding
  of Wind
• Windingly
  In a winding manner.
• Wind-plant
  A windflower.
• WINDLESTRAEWINDLESTRAW
  A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.
• Windlace
  See Windlass.
• Wind-rode
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.
• WINDPLANT
  A windflower.
• Watching
  of Watch
• Windage
  The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.

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