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Found 5 hits - Term: upwind, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
upwind \upwind"\, v. t.
   to wind up. --spenser.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
up-wind \up"-wind`\, adv.
   against the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is
   blowing.
   webster 1913 suppl. +pjc

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
upwind \up"wind`\, a.
   being or moving in the direction from which the wind is
   blowing.
   pjc

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
upwind
     adj : towards the side exposed to wind syn: weathera
     adv 1: toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" syn: leeward
            ant: windward, windward
     2: in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is
        blowing; "they flew upwind" syn: against the wind, into
        the wind ant: downwind
see also:
weathera leeward windward against the wind into the wind downwind 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 moby thesaurus words for "upwind":
   alee, alight, arise, ascend, aweather, come down, come in, come up,
   crash-land, curl upwards, descend, ditch, downwind, go up, grow up,
   land, leeward, level off, levitate, light, loom, mount, overshoot,
   pancake, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, settle down, spiral, spire,
   stand up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, talk down, to leeward,
   to windward, touch down, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise,
   upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, weatherward, windward





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