See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

WIND (a See also:

• COMMON

common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, See also:

• LAT

Lat. ventus, cf. " See also:

• WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)  , a natural See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion of the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air, a current of air coming from any particular direction or with any degree of velocity . For the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of winds, their causes, &c., see See also:

• METEOROLOGY (Gr. JerEwpa, and hb'yos, i.e. the science of things in the air)

METEOROLOGY . Winds may be classified according to the strength or velocity with which they See also:

• BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow, varying from a See also:

• CALM

calm, a See also:

• BREEZE

breeze to a See also:

• GALE
• GALE, THEOPHILUS (1628-1678)
• GALE, THOMAS (?1636-17o2)

gale, See also:

• STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger. Sturm; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
• STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

storm or See also:

• HURRICANE

hurricane; for the varying See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale of velocity per See also:

• HOUR

hour of these see See also:

• BEAUFORT
• BEAUFORT, FRANCOIS DE VENDOME
• BEAUFORT, HENRY (c. 1377–1447)
• BEAUFORT, LOUIS DE (d. 1795)

BEAUFORT SCALE, and for the measurement See also:

• ANEMOMETER (from Gr. aveµos, wind, and . rpov, a measure)

ANEMOMETER . Another See also:

• CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification divides them into " See also:

• REGULAR

regular" or " See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant " winds, such as the " See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade winds" (q.v.), and " periodic" winds, such as the "See also:

• MONSOON
• MONSOON (Arabic Mausim, season)

monsoon" (q.v.) . There are many See also:

• SPECIAL

special winds, such as the " See also:

• FOHN (Ger., probably derived through Romansch favongn, favoign, from Lat. favonius)

Fohn," " See also:

• CHINOOK

Chinook," " See also:

• MISTRAL
• MISTRAL, FREDERIC (183o– )

mistral," " See also:

• HARMATTAN

harmattan," " See also:

• SIROCCO

sirocco," which are treated under their individual names . For the See also:

• GROUP

group of musical See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments known by the generic name of See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

WIND INSTRUMENTS see that heading .