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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
wound winded winding wander wend to wind off 
to wind out to wind up 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wind \wind\, v. t. from wind, moving air, but confused in
   sense and in conjugation with wind to turn. imp.  p. p.
   wound wound, r. winded; p. pr.  vb. n. winding.
   to blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged
   and mutually involved notes. "hunters who wound their horns."
   --pennant.
   1913 webster

         ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, .
         . .
         wind the shrill horn.                    --pope.
   1913 webster

         that blast was winded by the king.       --sir w.
                                                  scott.
   1913 webster
see also:
wind wound winded winding 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wound \wound\,
   imp.  p. p. of wind to twist, and wind to sound by
   blowing.
   1913 webster
see also:
wind 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wound \wound\ ?; 277, n. oe. wounde, wunde, as. wund; akin to
   ofries. wunde, os. wunda, d. wonde, ohg. wunta, g. wunde,
   icel. und, and to as., os.,  g. wund sore, wounded, ohg.
   wunt, goth. wunds, and perhaps also to goth. winnan to
   suffer, e. win. root140. cf. zounds.
   1913 webster
   1. a hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a
      breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the
      substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab,
      rent, or the like. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            showers of blood
            rained from the wounds of slaughtered englishmen.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. fig.: an injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to
      feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
      1913 webster

   3. criminal law an injury to the person by which the skin
      is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the
      body, involving some solution of continuity.
      1913 webster

   note: walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a
         "capricious novelty." it is certainly opposed to an
         important principle of our language, namely, that the
         old english long sound written ou, and pronounced like
         french ou or modern english oo, has regularly changed,
         when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually
         written with the same letters ou in modern english, as
         in ground, hound, round, sound. the use of ou in old
         english to represent the sound of modern english oo was
         borrowed from the french, and replaced the older and
         anglo-saxon spelling with u. it makes no difference
         whether the word was taken from the french or not,
         provided it is old enough in english to have suffered
         this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but
         words taken from the french at a later time, or
         influenced by french, may have the french sound.
         1913 webster

   wound gall zool., an elongated swollen or tuberous gall
      on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small
      reddish brown weevil ampeloglypter sesostris whose
      larvae inhabit the galls.
      1913 webster
see also:
wound gall ampeloglypter sesostris 
[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wound \wound\, v. t. imp.  p. p. wounded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   wounding. as. wundian. root140. see wound, n.
   1913 webster
   1. to hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of
      parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
      1913 webster

            the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the
            archers.                              --1 sam. xxxi.
                                                  3.
      1913 webster

   2. to hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect,
      ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
      1913 webster

            when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their
            weak conscience, ye sin against christ. --1 cor.
                                                  viii. 12.
      1913 webster
see also:
wounded wounding wound 
[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
coiled \coiled\ koild, adj.
   curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals;
   as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on
   the deck. opposite of uncoiled.

   note: narrower terms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling,
         volute, voluted, whorled; convolute rolled
         longitudinally upon itself;curled, curled up;
         involute closely coiled so that the axis is
         obscured; looped, whorled; twined, twisted;
         convoluted; involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves
         in bud: having margins rolled inward; wound
         wordnet 1.5
see also:
uncoiled coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled convolute rolled longitudinally upon itself curled, curled up involute closely coiled so that the axis is obscured looped, whorled 
twined, twisted convoluted involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud: having margins rolled inward wound 
[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wind
     n 1: air moving sometimes with considerable force from an area
          of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent
          under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row";
          "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air
          current and out into the atmosphere" syn: air current,
           current of air
     2: a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of
        change"
     3: breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
     4: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a
        lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" syn: idle
        words, jazz, nothingness
     5: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the
        stock market"; "a good lead for a job" syn: tip, lead,
         steer, confidential information, hint
     6: a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an
        enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath syn: wind
        instrument
     7: a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus syn: fart,
         farting, flatus, breaking wind
     8: the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old
        clock and gave it a good wind" syn: winding, twist
     v 1: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular
          course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
          meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout
          wanders through the entire body" syn: weave, thread,
           meander, wander
     2: extend in curves and turns; "the road winds around the lake"
        syn: curve
     3: wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger";
        "twine the thread around the spool" syn: wrap, roll,
        twine ant: unwind
     4: catch the scent of; get wind of; "the dog nosed out the
        drugs" syn: scent, nose
     5: coil the spring of some mechanical device by turning a
        stem; "wind your watch" syn: wind up
     6: form into a wreath syn: wreathe
     7: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist
        the bicycle onto the roof of the car" syn: hoist, lift
     also: wound
see also:
air current current of air idle words jazz nothingness tip 
lead steer confidential information hint wind instrument 
fart farting flatus breaking wind winding 
twist weave thread meander wander 
curve wrap roll twine unwind 
scent nose wind up wreathe hoist 
lift wound 
[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wound
     adj : put in a coil
     n 1: any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or
          surgical incision syn: lesion
     2: a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat syn:
         injury, combat injury
     3: a figurative injury to your feelings or pride; "he feared
        that mentioning it might reopen the wound"; "deep in her
        breast lives the silent wound"; "the right reader of a
        good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has
        taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over
        it"--robert frost
     4: the act of inflicting a wound syn: wounding
     v 1: cause injuries or bodily harm to syn: injure
     2: hurt the feelings of; "she hurt me when she did not include
        me among her guests"; "this remark really bruised me ego"
        syn: hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite
see also:
lesion injury combat injury wounding injure hurt 
bruise offend spite 
[9] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wound
     see wind
see also:
wind 
[10] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
232 moby thesaurus words for "wound":
   abrade, abrasion, abscess, abuse, ache, aching, afflict, affront,
   aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, aposteme, barb the dart, bark,
   bed sore, befoul, bewitch, bite, blain, bleb, blemish, blight,
   blister, bloody, blow, boil, break, bruise, bubo, bulla, bunion,
   burn, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chafe, chancre, chancroid,
   check, chilblain, chip, claw, cold sore, concussion, condemn,
   convulse, corrupt, crack, crackle, cramp, craze, crucify, curse,
   cut, cut up, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy,
   disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill,
   do wrong, do wrong by, dolor, doom, envenom, eschar, excruciate,
   felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flash burn,
   fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gash,
   gathering, get into trouble, give offense, give pain, give umbrage,
   gnaw, grate, grief, grieve, grind, gripe, gumboil, harass, harm,
   harrow, hemorrhoids, hex, hurt, hurt the feelings, impair, incise,
   incision, infect, inflame, inflict pain, injure, injury, irritate,
   jinx, kibe, kill by inches, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim,
   make mincemeat of, maltreat, martyr, martyrize, maul, menace,
   mistreat, molest, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, nasty blow,
   nip, offend, outrage, pain, pang, papula, papule, paronychia,
   parulis, passion, persecute, petechia, pierce, piles, pimple,
   pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, pock, poison, pollute,
   polyp, prejudice, prick, prolong the agony, puncture, pustule,
   put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rend, rent, rip, rising, rub,
   run, rupture, savage, scab, scald, scathe, scorch, scotch, scrape,
   scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, shock, skin, slash, slit,
   soft chancre, sore, sore spot, spasm, sprain, stab, stab wound,
   stick, stigma, sting, strain, stress, stress of life, stroke, sty,
   suffering, suppuration, swelling, taint, tear, tender spot,
   third-degree burn, threaten, throes, torment, torture, trauma,
   traumatize, tubercle, tweak, twist, twist the knife, ulcer,
   ulceration, violate, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow,
   wounds immedicable, wreak havoc on, wrench, wring, wrong




[11] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
wound, med. jur. this term, in legal medicine, comprehends all lesions of 
the body, and in this it differs from the meaning of the word when used in 
surgery. the latter only refers to a solution of continuity, while the 
former comprises not only these, but also every other kind of accident, such 
as bruises, contusions, fractures, dislocations, and the like. cooper's 
surgical dict. h.t.; dunglison's med. dict. h.t.; vide dictionnaire des 
sciences medicales, mot blessures 3 fodere, med. leg. sec. 687-811. 
     2. under the statute 9 geo. iv. c. 21, sect. 12, it has been held in 
england, that to make a wound, in criminal cases, there must be "an injury 
to the person by which the skin is broken." 6 c.  p. 684; s. c. 19 eng. c. 
l. rep. 526. vide beck's med. jur. c. 15; ryan's med. jur. index, h.t.; 
roscoe's cr. ev. 652; 19 eng. com. l. rep. 425, 430, 526, 529; dane's ab. 
index, h.t.; 1 moody's cr. cas. 278; 4 c.  p. 381; s. c. 19 e. c. l. r. 
430; 4 c.  p. 446; s. c. 19 e. c. l. r. 466; 1 moody's cr. c. 318; 4 c.  
p. 558; s. c. 19 e. c. l. r. 526; carr. cr. l. 239; guy, med. jur. ch. 9, p. 
446; merl. repert. mot blessure. 
     3. when a person is found dead from wounds, it is proper to inquire 
whether they are the result of suicide, accident, or homicide. in making the 
examination, the greatest attention should be bestowed on all the 
circumstances. on this subject some general directions have been given under 
the article death. the reader is referred to 2 beck's med. jur. 68 to 93. as 
to, wounds on the living body, see id. 188. 




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