WIND

WIND. → Blasting 2Ki 19:7,35 → East
* Hot and blasting in Egypt Ge 41:6
* In the valley of the Euphrates River Eze 19:12
* In Canaan Ho 13:15; Lu 12:55
* At the city of Nineveh Jon 4:8
* Tempestuous in the land of Uz Job 27:21

→ West
* Took away the plague of locusts from the land of Egypt Ex 10:19

→ North
* Free from humidity in Canaan Pr 25:23

→ South
* Soothing Job 37:17
* Tempestuous Job 37:9
* Purifying Job 37:21

→ FIGURATIVE Ho 4:19
* Of the judgments of God Jer 22:22; Ho 13:15; Mt 7:25
* Of the Spirit Joh 3:8
* Of heresy Eph 4:14

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wind. Wind, n. a current of air, breath or respiration, flatulence, publicity

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Wind (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wound (wound) (rarely Winded); p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] [[OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. Wander, Wend.]] 1. 1. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. Milton. 2. 2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. Shak. 3. 3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. “To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.” Shak.
In his terms so he would him wind. Chaucer. Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. Herrick. Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. Addison. 4. 4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. Shak. Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. Gov. of Tongue. 5. 5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
To wind off, to unwind; to uncoil. — To wind out, to extricate. Clarendon. — To wind up. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. “Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.” Dryden. “Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.” Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. “Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.” Waller.