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(Encyclopedia) dune, mound or ridge of wind-blown sand formed in arid regions and along coasts. Dunes are common in most of the great deserts of the world. Often a dune begins to form because…Wells, David Ames
(Encyclopedia) Wells, David Ames, 1828–98, American economist, b. Springfield, Mass., grad. Williams, 1847, and Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge, Mass., 1851. Early in life he wrote several…Amy Lowell: Wind
WindHe shouts in the sails of the ships at sea, He steals the down from the honeybee, He makes the forest trees rustle and sing, He twirls my kite till it breaks its string. Laughing,…Santa Ana Winds
Mysterious autumn winds that warm southern California by Liz Olson California Related Links Worst U.S. Forest Fires Disasters CaliforniaIn autumn, we often hear about Santa…Brewer's: Hug the Wind
(To). To keep a ship close hauled. “Serrer le vent.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hugger-muggerHug the Shore A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…Brewer's: Etesian Wind
(An). “Etesia Flabra Aquilorium, ” says Lucretius (v. 741). A wind which rises annually about the dog-days, and blows forty days together in the same direction. It is a gentle and mild…Brewer's: Raise the Wind
To obtain ready money by hook or crook. A sea phrase. What wind is to a ship, money is to commerce. Ive tried queer ways The wind to raise, But ne'er had such a blow. Judy (My Lost Dog),…Brewer's: Samiel Wind
or Simoom'. A hot suffocating wind that blows occasionally in Africa and Arabia. (Arabic, samma, suffocatingly hot.) “Burning and beadlong as the Samiel wind.” ThomasMoore: Lalla Rookh,…Brewer's: Second Wind
(The), in running. All animals soon after the start get out of breath, but as the body becomes heated, breathing becomes more easy, and endures till fatigue produces exhaustion; this is…Brewer's: Trade Winds
Winds that trade or tread in one uniform track. In the northern hemisphere they blow from the north-east, and in the southern hemisphere from the south-east, about thirty degrees each side…Trending
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