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Windiness   Listen
noun
Windiness  n.  
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.
Tumor; puffiness. "The swelling windiness of much knowledge."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Windiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... calm, caused by the shelter of a clump of brush or weeds, in which the snow had taken refuge from the wind's rough and savage play. Between these capes of snow there was an occasional bare patch of clean swept ground. Altogether there was an impression of barren, wild, bitter-cold windiness about the aspect that did not fail to awe my mind; it looked inhospitable, merciless, and ...
— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove

... on words and windiness, On smiles, and signs, and bladders light as air; Saying, thou fain wouldst comfort his distress, But dar'st not, canst not: nay, dear lady fair, All things are possible beneath the stress Of will, that flames above the soul's despair! Dally no ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds



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