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
