| windpuffs | An affliction of horses marked by a collection of synovial fluid between the tendons of the legs, particularly just above the fetlock joint, the prominence appearing on both sides of the tendon; most common in hard-worked animals and may end in lameness. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| windsor | A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. <botany> See Bean. Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| windy | 1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterised by wind; exposed to wind. "The windy hill." "Blown with the windy tempest of my heart." (Shak) 2. Next the wind; windward. "It keeps on the windy side of care." (Shak) 3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather. 4. Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food. 5. Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines. "A windy colic." 6. Empty; airy. "Windy joy." "Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored." (South) Origin: AS. Windig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wine | 1. The expressed juice of grapes, especially. When fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." (Prov. Xx. 1) "Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine." (Milton) Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their colour, strength, taste, etc, wines are called red, white, spirituous, dry, light, still, etc. 2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine. 3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. "Noah awoke from his wine." (Gen. Ix. 24) Birch wine, Cape wine, etc. See Birch, Cape, etc. Spirit of wine. See Spirit. To have drunk wine of ape or wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. Wine acid. <chemistry> See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. <botany> Wine apple, a solution of opium in aromatised sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; also Sydenham's laudanum. Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice. Wine skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine. Wine stone, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st Tartar. Wine vault. A vault where wine is stored. A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop. Wine vinegar, vinegar made from wine. Wine whey, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine. Origin: OE. Win, AS. Win, fr. L. Vinum (cf. Icel. Vin; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. O'i^nos, and E. Withy. Cf. Vine, Vineyard, Vinous, Withy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wine spirit | <chemical> An organic chemical containing one or more hydroxyl groups. Alcohols can be liquids, semisolids or solids at room temperature. Common alcohols include ethanol (the type found in alcoholic beverages) methanol (found in methylated spirit and can cause blindness and other nervous system damage if ingested) and propanol. (06 May 1997) |
| wine vinegar | <chemical> Vinegar produced by the oxidation of alcohol in wine by members of the genus Acetobacter. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wineberry | <botany> The red currant. The bilberry. A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wing | <plant biology> A membranous expansion of a fruit or seed, which aids dispersal, a thin flange of tissue extended beyond the normal outline of a stem or petiole, a lateral petal of a flower in the family Fabaceae. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wing cell | One of the polyhedral cell's in the corneal epithelium beneath the surface layer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wing of crista galli | A small lateral expansion of the ethmoid bone from the front of the crista galli on each side that articulates with the frontal bone and forms the foramen caecum. Synonym: ala cristae galli, alar process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wing of ilium | The upper flaring portion of the ilium. Synonym: ala ossis ilii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wing of nose | The outer more or less flaring wall of each nostril. Synonym: ala nasi, pinna nasi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wing of sacrum | The upper surface of the lateral part of the sacrum adjacent to the body. Synonym: ala sacralis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wing of vomer | An everted lip on either side of the upper border of the vomer, between which fits the rostrum of the sphenoid bone. Synonym: ala vomeris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wing plate | The dorsal division of the lateral walls of the neural tube in the embryo; it gives rise to neurons relaying afferent impulses to higher centres; in the adult such neurons compose the sensory nuclei of the spinal cord and brainstem. Synonym: lamina alaris, alar plate of neural tube, dorsolateral plate of neural tube, lamina dorsalis, wing plate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| windchill |
Wind chill is the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human (or animal) body due to the combination of air temperature and wind speed. ...
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Tsang, Wing Han (曾詠韓), better known simply as Wing, is a New Zealand citizen originally from Hong Kong. With a love for singing and a new country to call home, Wing was told when singing to patients at hospitals in and around Auckland that she should put out a CD, and that sparked Phantom of the Opera, her first CD. By the release of Everyone Sings Christmas Carols with Wing, she was selling internationally. ...
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A birds' wings are the modified front limbs which allow it to fly. Most wings are made of light bone and long primary and secondary feathers, which means they are very light structures. In several species of North American birds (including the emperor penguin), the forelimbs are technically still wings but look a lot more like other structures (ie flippers).
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| windpipe |
The airway that leads from the larynx to the lungs. Also called the trachea.
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| windburn |
Injury to plant foliage caused by strong, hot, dry winds.
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| win | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath |
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| win | an indication of potential opportunity |
| win | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk |
| win | a tendency or force that influences events |
| win | air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure |
| win | raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help |
| win | form into a wreath |
| win | coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem |
| win | wrap or coil around |
| win | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course |
| win | catch the scent of |
| win | extend in curves and turns |