windless
adj/ˈwɪndləs/
Etymology
From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
- inherited from wyndles
Definitions
Devoid of wind
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: […]
- [W]hen the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth’s excrement. But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.
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.
- Then came others one after another, windless with running, crying out and saying, that all was gone: and that every where the souldiers goods were rifled, ransacked and carried clean away.
Alternative form of windlass.
The neighborhood
- neighborbreathless
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for windless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA