[f. WIND sb.1 + -ED2.] Having wind, i.e., (usually) breath, of a specified kind or in a specified condition: chiefly in parasynthetic combinations, as BROKEN-WINDED, LONG-WINDED, SHORT-WINDED; also † calm-winded = in which the wind, i.e., the air, is calm.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 49. The longis hool and wynded with the best.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. lviii. 512. The clenest myȝted man and the best wynded of his age that was on lyue. Ibid., lxii. 521. At the last sir Palomydes waxed bygge and better wynded.
1577. Grange, Golden Aphrod., N j b. Making as heauenly a noyse as doth an arbor of Nightingales in a calme winded night.
1736. Bracken, Farriery (1757), II. 15. A Sign of a good winded Horse.
