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windlesses

windlesses is the plural of windless.

Meaning of windless

Adjective

windless (comparative more windless, superlative most windless)

  1. 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: […]1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act IV, (please specify the scene...
  2. 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.1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Of Ferreting. The Manner of Vndooing Gentlemen by Taking vp of Commodities.”, in...

Questions about windlesses

What is windlesses the plural of?
Windlesses is the plural of windless.

Words near windlesses in the dictionary

  1. windle
  2. windled
  3. windles
  4. Windlesham
  5. windless
  6. windlesses
  7. windlessly
  8. windlessness
  9. windlestrae
  10. windlestraes
  11. windlestraw

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