| windfall | 1. Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. "They became a windfall upon the sudden." 2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain. "He had a mighty windfall out of doubt." (B. Jonson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| windflower | <botany> The anemone; so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windgall | <veterinary> A soft tumour or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windhover | <zoology> The kestrel. Synonym: windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner. Origin: From its habit of hovering over one spot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Windigo psychosis | Severe anxiety neurosis with special reference to food, manifested in melancholia, violence, and obsessive cannibalism, occurring among Canadian Indians. (05 Mar 2000) |
| windiness | 1. The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. 2. Fullness of wind; flatulence. 3. Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. 4. Tumour; puffiness. "The swelling windiness of much knowledge." (Brerewood) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windle | 1. A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch. 2. <zoology> The redwing. Origin: From Wind to turn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windless | 1. Having no wind; calm. 2. Wanting wind; out of breath. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windlestraw | <botany> A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially. Agrostis Spica-ventis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windmill | A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| window | 1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. "I leaped from the window of the citadel." (Shak) " Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow." (Milton) 2. The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. "Till he has windows on his bread and butter." (King) French window, the common European martin. Window tax, a tax or duty formerly levied on all windows, or openings for light, above the number of eight in houses standing in cities or towns. Origin: OE. Windowe, windoge, Icel. Vindauga window, properly, wind eye; akin to Dan. Vindue. See Wind, and Eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| window level | The CT number setting in Hounsfield units of the midpoint of the window width, which is the gray scale of the image; a typical window level for imaging the lungs if -500; for the abdomen, 0. (05 Mar 2000) |
| window width | The range of CT numbers (in Hounsfield units) included in the gray scale video display of the CT image, ranging from 1 to 2000 or 3000, depending on the type of machine. See: window level. (05 Mar 2000) |
| windowpane | 1. See Pane, (3) b. [In this sense, written also window pane. 2. <zoology> A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Synonym: spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windowy | Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |