Broken wind () The heaves. |
Conversion (n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed |
Conversion (n.) The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another |
Conversion (n.) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right |
Conversion (n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary. |
Conversion (n.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition |
Conversion (n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank. |
Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles. |
Conversion (n.) A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction |
Converter (n.) One who converts |
Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. |
Energy (n.) Internal or inherent power |
Energy (n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted |
Energy (n.) Strength of expression |
Energy (n.) Capacity for performing work. |
Metric system () See Metric, a. |
System (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific |
System (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole |
System (n.) Regular method or order |
System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. |
System (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ |
System (n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians. |
Thick wind () A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. |
Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns |
Wind (v. t.) To entwist |
Wind (v. t.) To have complete control over |
Wind (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation |
Wind (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about |
Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly |
Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction |
Wind (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other |
Wind (n.) The act of winding or turning |
Wind (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity |
Wind (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action |
Wind (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. |
Wind (n.) Power of respiration |
Wind (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels |
Wind (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent. |
Wind (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow |
Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. |
Wind (n.) Mere breath or talk |
Wind (n.) The dotterel. |
Wind (v. t.) To expose to the wind |
Wind (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent |
Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind |
Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered |
Wind (v. t.) To blow |
Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of |
Wind-break (n.) A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. |
Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two |