No Encyclopedia Entry for Wound Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (imp. & p. p.) of Wind. 2. (imp. & p. p.) of Wind. 3. (v.) imp. & p. p. of Wind to sound by blowing. 4. (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. 5. (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc. 6. (n.) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity. 7. (n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like. 8. (n.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
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