Window tax, a tax or duty formerly levied on all windows, or openings for light, above the number of eight in houses standing in cities or towns. [Eng.]

Window
(Win"dow) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Windowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Windowing.]

1. To furnish with windows.

2. To place at or in a window. [R.]

Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see
Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down
His corrigible neck?
Shak.

Windowed
(Win"dowed) a. Having windows or openings. [R.] "Looped and windowed raggedness." Shak.

Windowless
(Win"dow*less), a. Destitute of a window. Carlyle.

Windowpane
(Win"dow*pane`) n.

1. (Arch.) See Pane, n., (3) b. [In this sense, written also window pane.]

2. (Zoöl.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.

Windowy
(Win"dow*y) a. Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. [R.] Donne.

Windpipe
(Wind"pipe`) n. (Anat.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

Wind-plant
(Wind"-plant`) n. (Bot.) A windflower.

Wind-rode
(Wind"-rode`) a. (Naut.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; — said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.

Windrow
(Wind"row`) n. [Wind + row.]

1. A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.

2. Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them. [Eng.]

3. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. [Eng.]

Windrow
(Wind"row), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Windrowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Windrowing.] To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made. Forby.

Windsor
(Wind"sor) n. A town in Berkshire, England.

Windsor bean. (Bot.) See under Bean.Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Simmonds.Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence.

Windstorm
(Wind"storm) n. A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.

Wind-sucker
(Wind"-suck`er) n.

1. (Far.) A horse given to wind-sucking Law.

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