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/ˈwɪndləs/
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ˈwɪndləs
Adjective
Devoid of wind; calm.
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Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods, / Ætherial Dominations, who possess / Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes / Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness: […]
“[…] It’s for life, Miss Archer, it’s for life,” Lord Warburton repeated in the kindest, tenderest, pleasantest voice Isabel had ever heard, and looking at her with eyes charged with the light of a passion that had sifted itself clear of the baser parts of emotion—the heat, the violence, the unreason—and that burned as steadily as a lamp in a windless place.
[W]hen the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth’s excrement. But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.
Out of breath.
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[B]eing almost windles, by running after ſenſuall pleaſures too feircely, they [the gentry] are glad (for keeping them-ſelves in breath ſo long as they can) to fal to Ferret-hunting, yͭ is to say, to take vp commodities.
Then came others one after another, windless with running, crying out and saying, that all was gone: and that every where the souldiers goods were rifled, ransacked and carried clean away.
Adjective
without or almost without wind
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he prefers windless days for playing golf