[f. WIND v.2 + -ED1.]
1. Exposed to wind or air; spec. spoilt or tainted by exposure to air.
1595. [see WINDEDNESS].
1824. Carr, Craven Gloss., Winded, dry.
1840. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 68/2. The same changes are sometimes produced by other causes, when the coal is said to be winded.
1847. Halliwell, Winded, said of meat hung up when it becomes puffed and rancid.
1887. Jamieson’s Sc. Dict., Suppl.
2. Sounded with the breath, blown, as a wind-instrument.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., xxvi. 320. His fellowes winded Horne not one of them but knew.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, IV. xii. Little care we for thy winded horn. Ibid. (1820), Abbot, iii. A winded bugle.
3. Put out of breath, breathless, ‘blown,’ ‘puffed.’
1897. Outing (U.S.), XXIX. 596/1. My pursuers … imparted a prodigious lashing to their winded mustangs.
1919. J. Foster, in Chamb. Jrnl., Aug., 520/2. A ten-foot leap, easy enough on the flat, but with a difficult ‘take off’ for a winded man.
Hence Windedness, tainted condition (see 1).
1595. Duncan, App. Etym. (E.D.S.), 73/1. Rancor, vitium carnis, windednes.
