▪ I. winded, a.
(ˈwɪndɪd)
[f. wind n.1 + -ed2.]
Having wind, i.e. (usually) breath, of a specified kind or in a specified condition: chiefly in parasynthetic combinations, as broken-winded, long-winded, short-winded; also † calm-winded = in which the wind, i.e. the air, is calm.
| c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 49 The longis hool and wynded with the best. 1470–85 Malory Arthur x. lviii. 512 The clenest myȝted man and the best wynded of his age that was on lyue. Ibid. lxii. 521 At the last sir Palomydes waxed bygge and better wynded. 1577 Grange Golden Aphrod. N j b, Making as heauenly a noyse as doth an arbor of Nightingales in a calme winded night. 1736 Bracken Farriery (1757) II. 15 A Sign of a good winded Horse. |
▪ II. winded, ppl. a.1
[f. wind v.2 + -ed1.]
1. (ˈwɪndɪd) Exposed to wind or air; spec. spoilt or tainted by exposure to air.
| 1595 [see windedness]. 1824 Carr Craven Gloss., Winded, dry. 1840 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 68/2 The same changes are sometimes produced by other causes, when the coal is said to be winded. 1847 Halliwell, Winded, said of meat hung up when it becomes puffed and rancid. 1887 Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. |
2. (ˈwaɪndɪd) Sounded with the breath, blown, as a wind-instrument.
| 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxvi. 320 His fellowes winded Horne not one of them but knew. 1805 Scott Last Minstr. iv. xii, Little care we for thy winded horn. 1820 ― Abbot iii, A winded bugle. |
3. (ˈwɪndɪd) Put out of breath, breathless, ‘blown’, ‘puffed’.
| 1883 ‘Mark Twain’ Life on Miss. iii. 49 They couldn't keep that up very long without getting winded. 1897 Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 596/1 My pursuers..imparted a prodigious lashing to their winded mustangs. 1919 Chamb. Jrnl. Aug. 520/2 A ten-foot leap, easy enough on the flat, but with a difficult ‘take off’ for a winded man. |
Hence ˈwindedness, tainted condition (see 1).
| 1595 Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.) 73/1 Rancor, vitium carnis, windednes. |
▪ III. winded, ppl. a.2 rare.
(ˈwaɪndɪd)
[wk. pa. pple. of wind v.1]
Wound up.
| 1642 H. More Song of Soul i. ii. lv, My fairly winded up conclusion. |