Windless
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of windlass. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
"The next work is racking or tentering the cloth […] and this is performed by setting it in a frame, which we call tenters, such as are to be seen in many fields about London, wherein (it having a windless at one end) it is first strained to its length, then afterwards to its breadth and parallelism […]"
- 1 Devoid of wind; calm.
"Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods, / Ætherial Dominations, who possess / Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes / Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness: […]"
- 2 Out of breath.
"[B]eing almost windles, by running after ſenſuall pleaſures too feircely, they [the gentry] are glad (for keeping them-ſelves in breath ſo long as they can) to fal to Ferret-hunting, yͭ is to say, to take vp commodities."
- 1 without or almost without wind wordnet
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More examples"Tonight was also a windless night."
Etymology
From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
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