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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UPWIND, v.t. [up and wind.] To wind up.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: towards the side exposed to wind [syn: upwind, weather] adv
1: toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn: leeward, upwind] [ant: downwind, windward]
2: in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: upwind, against the wind, into the wind] [ant: downwind]

Merriam Webster's

adverb or adjective Date: 1838 in the direction from which the wind is blowing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. against the direction of the wind.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Upwind Up*wind", v. t. To wind up. --Spenser.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something moves upwind, it moves in the opposite direction to the wind. If something is upwind, the wind is blowing away from it. ...riding a bike upwind... The rich went to live in the west of London, upwind of the smell of people and industry. ? downwind ADV: ADV after v, be ADV, oft ADV of n • Upwind is also an adjective. ...big trees at the forest's upwind edge. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

alee, alight, arise, ascend, aweather, come down, come in, come up, crash-land, curl upwards, descend, ditch, downwind, go up, grow up, land, leeward, level off, levitate, light, loom, mount, overshoot, pancake, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, settle down, spiral, spire, stand up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, talk down, to leeward, to windward, touch down, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, weatherward, windward