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noun Wound n. 1.A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. "Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen." 2.Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc. 3.(Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity. Note: Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious novelty." It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound. Wound gall (Zool.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls.
verb Wind v. t. (past & past part. wound, rarely winded; pres. part. winding) 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." 2.To entwist; to infold; to encircle. "Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms." 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." "In his terms so he would him wind." "Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses." "Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure." 4.To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. "You have contrived... to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical." "Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse." 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. (Obs.) 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." "Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch." (d)To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. "Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute."
Wind v. t. (past & past part. wound, rarely winded; pres. part. winding) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. "Hunters who wound their horns." "Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood,... Wind the shrill horn." "That blast was winded by the king."
Wound v. t. (past & past part. wounded; pres. part. wounding) 1.To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like. "The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers." 2.To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to. "When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ."
Wind v. i. (past & past part. wound, rarely winded; pres. part. winding) 1.To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. "So swift your judgments turn and wind." 2.To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. "And where the valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow." "He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which... winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs." 3.To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds. "To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape. Long struggling underneath are they could wind Out of such prison."
Wound v. Imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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