Definitions
without or almost without wind
Word origin
From Middle English wyndles, equivalent to wind + -less. Cognate with Old Norse vindlauss (“windless”).
Used in a sentence
“Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods, / Ætherial Dominations, who possess / Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes / Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness: […]”
“[B]eing almost windles, by running after ſenſuall pleaſures too feircely, they [the gentry] are glad (for keeping them-ſelves in breath ſo long as they can) to fal to Ferret-hunting, yͭ is to say, to take vp commodities.”
“Then came others one after another, windless with running, crying out and saying, that all was gone: and that every where the souldiers goods were rifled, ransacked and carried clean away.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Without a breeze”8 letters
02“Still and calm”8 letters
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