windless

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of windlass. alt-of,alternative,obsolete
    — The next work is racking or tentering the cloth […] and this is performed by setting it in a frame, which we call tenters, such as are to be seen in many fields about London, wherein (it having a windless at one end) it is first strained to its length, then afterwards to its breadth and parallelism […]
形容词 adj.
  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: […]
  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.

词形变化

more windless comparative most windless superlative windlesses plural

词汇关系

相关词
breathless

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
词源 2
From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
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