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windward
(encz) | windward,na návětrnou stranu adv: Adam Nohejl |
windward
(encz) | windward,návětrný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Windward
(gcide) | Windward \Wind"ward\, n.
The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to
the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
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To lay an anchor to the windward, a figurative expression,
signifying to adopt precautionary or anticipatory measures
for success or security.
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Windward
(gcide) | Windward \Wind"ward\, a.
Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the
Windward Islands.
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Windward
(gcide) | Windward \Wind"ward\, adv.
Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
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windward
(wn) | windward
adv 1: away from the wind; "they were sailing windward" [syn:
windward, downwind] [ant: leeward, upwind]
adj 1: on the side exposed to the wind; "the windward islands"
[ant: leeward]
n 1: the direction from which the wind is coming [ant:
leeward]
2: the side of something that is toward the wind [ant: lee,
lee side, leeward] |
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to windward
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windward islands
(encz) | Windward Islands, |
windward side
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windward slope
(encz) | windward slope,vzdušný svah (hráze) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
To eat to windward
(gcide) | Eat \Eat\, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in
distinction from liquid, food; to board.
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He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
ix. 13.
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2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
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3. To make one's way slowly.
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To eat, To eat in or To eat into, to make way by
corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which
eats into itself." --Byron.
To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when
closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
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To lay an anchor to the windward
(gcide) | Windward \Wind"ward\, n.
The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to
the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
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To lay an anchor to the windward, a figurative expression,
signifying to adopt precautionary or anticipatory measures
for success or security.
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To work to windward
(gcide) | Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Worked (w[^u]rkt),
or Wrought (r[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Working.] [AS.
wyrcean (imp. worthe, wrohte, p. p. geworht, gewroht); akin
to OFries. werka, wirka, OS. wirkian, D. werken, G. wirken,
Icel. verka, yrkja, orka, Goth. wa['u]rkjan. [root]145. See
Work, n.]
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1. To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for
the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in
the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
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O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,
To match thy goodness? --Shak.
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Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw
be given you. --Ex. v. 18.
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Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake,
Our life doth pass. --Sir J.
Davies.
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2. Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform;
as, a machine works well.
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We bend to that the working of the heart. --Shak.
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3. Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or
influence; to conduce.
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We know that all things work together for good to
them that love God. --Rom. viii.
28.
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This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he
desired to be taught. --Locke.
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She marveled how she could ever have been wrought
upon to marry him. --Hawthorne.
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4. To carry on business; to be engaged or employed
customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor;
to toil.
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They that work in fine flax . . . shall be
confounded. --Isa. xix. 9.
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5. To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a
state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to
strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.
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Confused with working sands and rolling waves.
--Addison.
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6. To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or
penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a
following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through,
and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work
into the earth.
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Till body up to spirit work, in bounds
Proportioned to each kind. --Milton.
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7. To ferment, as a liquid.
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The working of beer when the barm is put in.
--Bacon.
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8. To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a
cathartic.
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Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so
to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room.
--Grew.
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To work at, to be engaged in or upon; to be employed in.
To work to windward (Naut.), to sail or ply against the
wind; to tack to windward. --Mar. Dict.
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Windward
(gcide) | Windward \Wind"ward\, n.
The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to
the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
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To lay an anchor to the windward, a figurative expression,
signifying to adopt precautionary or anticipatory measures
for success or security.
[1913 Webster]Windward \Wind"ward\, a.
Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the
Windward Islands.
[1913 Webster]Windward \Wind"ward\, adv.
Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
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to windward
(wn) | to windward
n 1: the side toward the wind [syn: to windward, {windward
side}, weatherboard, weather side] |
windward islands
(wn) | Windward Islands
n 1: a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the
southern part of the Lesser Antilles [syn: {Windward
Islands}, Windward Isles] |
windward isles
(wn) | Windward Isles
n 1: a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the
southern part of the Lesser Antilles [syn: {Windward
Islands}, Windward Isles] |
windward passage
(wn) | Windward Passage
n 1: a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that
connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea |
windward side
(wn) | windward side
n 1: the side toward the wind [syn: to windward, {windward
side}, weatherboard, weather side] |
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