- OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windanin comp.). Cf. WanderWend
- To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor.
- To entwist; to infold; to encircle.Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.To turn andwinda fiery Pegasus.In his terms so he would him wind.Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses.Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical.Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
