windless
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windless
- /ˈwɪndləs/
Sounds like windlass
Where it comes from
From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
adjective more windless · most windless
- 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: […]
- 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.
noun windlesses
- Alternative form of windlass 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
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adj devoid of wind
| Deutsch | windstill |
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title = {windless},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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