Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure. • Air artificially put in motion by any force or action. • The ability to breathe easily. • News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. • A tendency or trend. • One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air. • One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements. • Flatus. • Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. • The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section. • A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument. • A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points. • Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds. • A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. • Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. • A bird, the dotterel. • The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury. • (usually as the wind) Something irrelevant; something that can be explained away. • Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)