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     To be in the wind, to be suggested or expected; to be a
        matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.]
  
     To carry the wind (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the
        ears, as a horse.
  
     To raise the wind, to procure money. [Colloq.]
  
     To take, or have, the wind, to gain or have the
        advantage. --Bacon.
  
     To take the wind out of one's sails, to cause one to stop,
        or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of
        another. [Colloq.]
  
     To take wind, or To get wind, to be divulged; to become
        public; as, the story got wind, or took wind.
  
     Wind band (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military
        band; the wind instruments of an orchestra.
  
     Wind chest (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an
        organ.
  
     Wind dropsy. (Med.)
         (a) Tympanites.
         (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue.
  
     Wind egg, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg.
  
     Wind furnace. See the Note under Furnace.
  
     Wind gauge. See under Gauge.
  
     Wind gun. Same as Air gun.
  
     Wind hatch (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is
        taken out of the earth.
  
     Wind instrument (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by
        means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a
        flute, a clarinet, etc.
  
     Wind pump, a pump moved by a windmill.
  
     Wind rose, a table of the points of the compass, giving the
        states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from
        the different directions.
  
     Wind sail.
         (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to
             convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower
             compartments of a vessel.
         (b) The sail or vane of a windmill.
  
     Wind shake, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by
        violent winds while the timber was growing.
  
     Wind shock, a wind shake.
  
     Wind side, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.]
        --Mrs. Browning.
  
     Wind rush (Zo["o]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
  
     Wind wheel, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind.
  
     Wood wind (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an
        orchestra, collectively.

  the wind /ðə wˈɪnd/
  die Bläser 
   see: wind player
  
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