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▪ I. winded, a.|ˈwɪndɪd|
[f. wind n.1 + -ed2.]
Having wind, i.e. (usually) breath, of a specified kind or in a specified condition: chiefly in parasynthetic combinations, as broken-winded, long-winded, short-winded; also † calm-winded = in which the wind, i.e. the air, is calm.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 49 The longis hool and wynded with the best. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. lviii. 512 The clenest myȝted man and the best wynded of his age that was on lyue. Ibid. lxii. 521 At the last sir Palomydes waxed bygge and better wynded. 1577Grange Golden Aphrod. N j b, Making as heauenly a noyse as doth an arbor of Nightingales in a calme winded night. 1736Bracken Farriery (1757) II. 15 A Sign of a good winded Horse.
▪ II. winded, ppl. a.1
[f. wind v.2 + -ed1.]
1. |ˈwɪndɪd| Exposed to wind or air; spec. spoilt or tainted by exposure to air.
1595[see windedness]. 1824Carr Craven Gloss., Winded, dry. 1840Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 68/2 The same changes are sometimes produced by other causes, when the coal is said to be winded. 1847Halliwell, Winded, said of meat hung up when it becomes puffed and rancid. 1887Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl.
2. |ˈwaɪndɪd| Sounded with the breath, blown, as a wind-instrument.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxvi. 320 His fellowes winded Horne not one of them but knew. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. xii, Little care we for thy winded horn. 1820― Abbot iii, A winded bugle.
3. |ˈwɪndɪd| Put out of breath, breathless, ‘blown’, ‘puffed’.
1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Miss. iii. 49 They couldn't keep that up very long without getting winded. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 596/1 My pursuers..imparted a prodigious lashing to their winded mustangs. 1919Chamb. Jrnl. Aug. 520/2 A ten-foot leap, easy enough on the flat, but with a difficult ‘take off’ for a winded man.
Hence ˈwindedness, tainted condition (see 1).
1595Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.) 73/1 Rancor, vitium carnis, windednes.
▪ III. winded, ppl. a.2 rare.|ˈwaɪndɪd|
[wk. pa. pple. of wind v.1]
Wound up.
1642H. More Song of Soul i. ii. lv, My fairly winded up conclusion. |