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windless, a.|ˈwɪndlɪs|
[f. wind n.1 + -less.]
1. Breathless, out of breath. Now rare.
a1400–50Wars Alex. 1271 Sa waike & so wyndles & wery for-foȝten. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 2126/1 His accuser..came..in such post speede, that in a maner he was wyndlesse entryng into the Bishops chamber. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 114 With all the speed I could make I returned all windlesse for hast. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xlix. 27 Panting and windless as a tired Woolf. 1894J. A. Steuart In Day of Battle i, He was stupefied and windless before the smile of disdain had time to leave his face.
2. Free from wind; not exposed to or stirred by the wind, in or upon which no wind blows.
In first quot. applied to wind supposed to be pent underground and to cause earthquakes: = not causing any movement in the atmosphere.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 480 When steeples stagger, and huge mountains tremble With wind-less wind [orig. Le vent sans faire vent]. 1802Mawe Min. Derbysh. Gloss. (E.D.S.) s.v., A place in a mine where the air is bad or short..is then said to be windless. 1818Shelley Rosal. & Helen 1106 The windless sky. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. ii. iii. iv. §35. 251 Colder and more quiet than a windless sea under the moon of midnight. 1855M. Arnold New Sirens 146 In some windless valley.
†3. Not causing flatulence. Obs. rare.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 85 b, Phasiolus..of Dioscorides is wyndy.., & y⊇ other ar flatuum expertes yt is windlesse.
Hence ˈwindlessly adv.; ˈwindlessness.
1897Edin. Rev. Oct. 387 The dawn broke windlessly over the dark mountain pass. 1916E. F. Benson David Blaize x, The sea slept in the windlessness of this August weather. |