windiness &c. adj.; ventosity|; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly
weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare’s tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall.
anemography[obs3], aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, vane,
weather-vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope[obs3].
sufflation[obs3], insufflation[obs3], perflation[obs3], inflation,
afflation[obs3]; blowing, fanning &c. v.; ventilation.
sneezing &c.v.: errhine[obs3]; sternutative[obs3], sternutatory[obs3];
sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.
Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus.
air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator,
punkah[obs3]; branchiae[obs3], gills, flabellum[obs3], vertilabrum[obs3].
whiffle ball.
V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c. n.;
wuther[obs3]; stream, issue.
respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle;
sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.
fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate|; blow up.
Adj. blowing &c. v.; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy,
tempestuous, blustering; boisterous &c. (violent) 173.
pulmonic[Med], pulmonary.
Phr. “lull’d by soft zephyrs” [Pope]; “the storm is up and all is on
the hazard” [Julius Caesar]; “the winds were wither’d in the stagnant air” [Byron]; “while mocking winds are piping loud” [Milton]; “winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage” [Paradise Lost].
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#350. [Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit.
— N. conduit, channel, duct, watercourse,
race; head race, tail race; abito[obs3], aboideau[obs3],
aboiteau[Fr], bito[obs3]; acequia[obs3], acequiador[obs3],
acequiamadre[obs3]; arroyo; adit[obs3], aqueduct, canal,
trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate[obs3], runner;
lock-weir, tedge[obs3]; vena[obs3]; dike, main, gully,
moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough,
kennel, siphon; piscina[obs3]; pipe &c. (tube) 260;
funnel; tunnel &c. (passage) 627; water pipe, waste
pipe; emunctory[obs3], gully hole, artery, aorta,
pore, spout, scupper; adjutage[obs3], ajutage[obs3];
hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle[obs3]; penstock, weir; flood
gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.
pipeline.
Adj. vascular &c. (with
holes) 260.
#351. [Channel for the
passage of air.] Airpipe. — N. air pipe,
air
tube; airhole[obs3], blowhole, breathinghole[obs3],
venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril,
nozzle, throat, weasand[obs3], trachea; bronchus,
bronchia[Med]; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle;
ventiduct[obs3], ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian
blinds; blowpipe &c. (wind) 349; pipe &c. (tube) 260;
jhilmil[obs3]; smokestack.
screen, window screen.
artificial lung, iron
lung, heart and lung machine.


