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  • noun Alternative spelling of wind rose.

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Examples

  • Best link in months, courtesy of windrose suricattus

    April 21st, 2005 suricattus 2005

  • Slander! peggin is secretly married to a horse! deire once took badgermirlacca into a changing room for some "fun"! tanaise and chibiaingeal took twenty minutes to decide what to tell the paramedics and the RSPCA. windrose and neadods secretly peed in scarlettina's cornflakes. marinarusalka and girasole do things behind koimistress's back that are illegal in most of the world. aynjel read msdori's diary, but fell asleep 'cause it was so boring!

    slander! suricattus 2005

  • Best link in months, courtesy of windrose — 5 comments

    April 21st, 2005 suricattus 2005

  • Mood index: working: the maid, cleaning the hotel room from windrose

    Things I've Done That others Might Not Have suricattus 2005

  • Mood index: content: the clicking of my keyboard and the humming of my brain lifted from windrose:

    dropping by briefly to say... suricattus 2004

  • Been over twenty years since I saw a windrose for us.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

  • Dove on the similar action of the declination needle to the atmospheric electrometer, 194; "law of rotation," 315; on the formation and appearance of clouds, 316; on the difference between the true temperature of the surface of the ground and the indications of a thermometer suspended in the shade, 325; hygrometric windrose, 333.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • On the western side of the windrose this elasticity diminishes, while it increases on the eastern side; on the former side, for instance, the cold, dense, and dry current of air repels the warmer, lighter current containing an abundance of aqueous vapor, while on the eastern side it is the former current which is repulsed by the latter.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • — 11 comments09: 41 pm: various, meet sundry — 5 comments21st08: 23 pm: Best link in months, courtesy of windrose — 5 comments22nd09: 45 am: A Friday * snorfle* and random thoughts — 2 comments04: 26 pm: eeeeeee!

    April 2005 suricattus 2005

  • "Like the windrose on a map, you point in all the directions of the wind -- but I did suspect you'd finally point your way back here, to your home, to me.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

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