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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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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 wind that under certain conditions blows over the escarpment of the Pennines, near See also:

CROSS

Cross See also:

Fell from the eastward, when a helm (See also:

HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet) See also:

CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

cloud covers the See also:

SUMMIT

summit. The helm See also:

bar is a See also:

roll of cloud that forms in front of it, to leeward. See " See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

Report on the Helm Wind Inquiry," by W. Marriott, Quart. Journ. See also:

ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

Roy. Met. See also:

SOC

Soc. xv. 103.

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