Who Has Seen the Wind?

Who Has Seen the Wind? Glossary

Bow

This word is a homonym for “bough”; in the context of “Who has seen the wind?” bow functions dually as both of the following definitions.

Verb:

a. To bend the body or the head as an act of submission or respect

b. To give into a greater force

c. To cause another object to give in or bend in submission

Noun: Something bent into a simple curve or arch

Bough

noun: A branch of a tree, especially a main branch; A homonym with “bow”

Metonymy

noun: A figure of speech wherein the name of an attribute stands in for the thing to which it belongs

Ex. “hands” is a metonym for people in the sentence “All hands on deck.”

Sublime

Adjective: possessing such excellence or beauty so as to inspire great admiration, awe, or terror.

This word has several different means depending on the context of its use. In science for example, sublime is often used as a verb describing a chemical phase change. In terms of “Who has seen the wind?” sublime is an aesthetic concept first defined by Edmund Burke.

Tremble

verb: to shake without control, usually due to anxiety or fear

Agnosticism

noun: the belief that the existence of anything beyond the purview of rational thought can be neither proved nor disproved; often used as a reference to the belief that the existence or non-existence of a divine power can never be known

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