To be in the wind, to be suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.]

To carry the wind (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the ears, as a horse.

To raise the wind, to procure money. [Colloq.]

To take, or have, the wind, to gain or have the advantage. --Bacon.

To take the wind out of one's sails, to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another. [Colloq.]

To take wind, or To get wind, to be divulged; to become public; as, the story got wind, or took wind.

Wind band (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra.

Wind chest (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an organ.

Wind dropsy. (Med.)
   (a) Tympanites.
   (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue.

Wind egg, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg.

Wind furnace. See the Note under Furnace.

Wind gauge. See under Gauge.

Wind gun. Same as Air gun.

Wind hatch (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth.

Wind instrument (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a flute, a clarinet, etc.

Wind pump, a pump moved by a windmill.

Wind rose, a table of the points of the compass, giving the states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different directions.

Wind sail.
   (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel.
   (b) The sail or vane of a windmill.

Wind shake, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while the timber was growing.

Wind shock, a wind shake.

Wind side, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.]

--Mrs. Browning.

Wind rush (Zo["o]l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

Wind wheel, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind.

Wood wind (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an orchestra, collectively.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)