Middle English Dictionary Entry
wīndī adj.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | wīndī adj.(2) Also ? wīndẹ̄ & (early) windig. |
| Etymology | From wīnd n. & OE windig; the form wīndẹ̄ may = wīndĕ and constitute an adjectival use of wīnd n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of a time, season, etc.: characterized by frequent or strong winds;
(b) of a storm: accompanied by or consisting of strong winds; of a cloud: turbulent; of a vapor: full of wind, airy; also, composed of rapidly moving particles;
(c) of a place: exposed to wind; of a reed: blown to and fro by the wind, wavering;
(d) fig. inconstant, fickle, variable; of speech: vain, empty.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)66/13 : Ðonne forme gearesdæig byð Sunendæig, hit byð god winter & windig lænctetid.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.3285 : Þe same nexte nyȝt So dirked was…So wyndy eke, with tempest al be-leyn.
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)1 : Towarde the ende of wyndy Februarie…the mery sone Vpon a Thursday shewed his bemys briht.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)166 : Espye a mery and hoot and clere and briȝt day, þe whiche be not wyndy.
- c1500 Progn.Weather (Dgb 88)295 : The tyme fro the kalendas [of January] to the kalendys of Apryle shulde be wyndy.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.1146 : The wyndy Storm began to skarse.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)487/30 : It bodiþ tempest, moist and wyndy.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)579/30 : A cloude þat is igendred onlyche of drye vapours and wyndy is deceyuable.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)439/1502 : Saue…maryners from wyndy disturbance!
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.2676 : For a tyme thei [knaves] may weel up ascende, Lyk wyndi smokes ther boistous fumys spreede.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Friend AN (Ashm 59)77 : Þeire frenship is lyche sunne…þat wyndy clowdes approchen man no nere.
c
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.62 : Set…tough [vines] in wyndy lond.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)47/31 : Truste not ner leene not upon a windy rede.
- a1550(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Sln 1873)2906 : Some placis most nede be euermore drie, Close from airys, no wyse wyndye.
d
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 16.3 : Wheþer wyndy woordis shul not han ende?
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.8.24 : The amyable Fortune maystow seen alwey wyndy [L ventosam] and flowynge and evere mysknowynge of hirself.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)5.1822 : Riht so the wyndi fauour bloweth in veyn.
2.
(a) Of food, drink, a constituent part of food or drink: causing flatulence, gassy;
(b) physiol. of bodily matter, a bodily condition, a pathological growth: characterized by or consisting of gas or air, full of gas, gassy.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)573/3 : Wyndy [L ventosus] vapour…is resolued by strengþe of hete out of mete and of drynke.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1083/19 : Newe must is ful wyndy and smoky.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)137b/a : Þe pacientes diete moste be good and attempere and not wyndye.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)58/142 : He must…ete laxe mete and nat wyndy.
- c1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)358/7 : Othir fisshis that ben grete…ben yll and wyndye.
- a1500 Diseases Women(3) (Yale-M 47)61/594 : Let þem absteyne þem from metes þat ben wyndy.
b
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)105b/b : A wyndye enpostume oþer ane enpostume of wynde is heled…wiþ medicynes þat consumen wynde.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)107/31 : A wyndy aposteme is gendred of a ventouse and vaporouse flewme.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)175/29 : Þe mater is more fleumatyk and wynde [*Ch.(1): ventous].
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)24/1 : A chapitre apendaunt þerto of wyndi apostymes.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)180/20 : If þer is ony wiyndi mater in his stomac, it is profitable to setten an horne eiþir a cuppe on þe stomake withouten garsing.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)53b/a : His egestioun ys white or þicke or wyndy.
- c1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)336/24 : The body is ill at ease, heuy, and full of slaugth…avoiding ill sauoured wynde by the whiche ben engendred wyndy bollnes of bely.
3.
In surnames.
Associated quotations
- (c1300) in Reaney Dict.Br.Surnames ()386 : Henry de Wyndibonk.
- (1315) in Kristensson ME Top.Terms ()96 : Rob. del Wyndybankes.
- (1324) in Ewen Surnames Brit.162 : Del Wyndibonck.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1400 *Albi Reynolds 5081 Recipes (Albi Reynolds 5081)f.22v : For to make whyt sope .. kast it in to formes, and drey it vp in a wyndy hows and it schall be good.
Note: Not clear whether a 'windy house' is simply a drafty building, or specifically a drying barn.