down the wind

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English

Prepositional phrase

down the wind

  1. In the direction of, and moving with, the wind.
    Birds fly swiftly down the wind.
  2. (obsolete) Decaying; declining.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “down the wind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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