Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WINK'ER, n.

One who winks. – Pope.

WINK'ING, ppr.

Shutting the eyes; shutting and opening the eyelids; hinting by closing the eye; conniving at; overlooking.

WINK'ING-LY, adv.

With the eye almost closed. – Peacham.

WIN'NER, n. [from win.]

One who gains by success in competition or contest.

WIN'NING, n.

The sum won or gained by success in competition or contest.

WIN'NING, ppr. [from win.]

1. Gaining by success in competition or contest.
2. adj. Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, winning address.

WIN'NING-LY, adv.

In a winning manner.

WIN'NOW, v.i.

To separate chaff from corn. Winnow not with every wind. – Ecclus.

WIN'NOW, v.t. [L. evanno, from vannus, a fan; D. and G. wannen; from the root of fan and wind. The Sax. has windwian, to wind.]

1. To separate and drive off the chaff from grain by means of wind. Grain is winnowed by a fan, or by a machine, or by pouring it out of a vessel in a current of air.
2. To fan; to beat as with wings. – Milton.
3. To examine; to sift for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth. Winnow well this thought. – Dryden.
4. To separate, as the bad from the good. – Shak.

WIN'NOW-ED, pp.

Separated from the chaff by wind; sifted; examined.

WIN'NOW-ER, n.

One who winnows.

WIN'NOW-ING, ppr.

Separating from the chaff by wind; examining.

WIN'SOME, a.

Cheerful; merry.

WIN'TER, n. [Sax. G. D. Sw. and Dan.; from wind, or its root; Goth. wintrus.]

1. The cold season of the year. Astronomically considered, winter commences in northern latitudes when the san enters Capricorn, or at the solstice about the 21st of December, and ends at the equinox in March; but in ordinary discourse, the three winter months are December, January, and February. Our Saxon ancestors reckoned the years by winters; as, ten winters; thirty winters. In tropical climates, there are two winters annually; but they can not be said to be cold. In the temperate and frigid climates, there is one winter only in the year.
2. The part of a printing press which sustains the carriage.

WIN'TER, v.i.

To pass the winter. He wintered in Italy. Cattle winter well on good fodder.

WIN'TER, v.t.

To feed or manage during the winter. To winter young cattle on straw, is not profitable. Delicate plants must be wintered under cover.

WIN-TER-AP'PLE, n. [winter and apple.]

An apple that keeps well in winter.

WIN-TER-BAR-LEY, a. [winter and barley.]

A kind of barley which is sowed in autumn.

WIN'TER-BEAT-EN, a. [winter and beat.]

Harassed by the severe weather of winter. – Spenser.

WIN'TER-BER-RY, n. [winter and berry.]

A plant of the genus Princa. – Lee.

WIN'TER-BLOOM, n. [winter and bloom.]

A plant of the genus Azalea. – Lee.

WIN'TER-CHER'RY, n. [winter and cherry.]

A plant of the genus Physalie, and its fruit, which is of the size of a cherry. – Lee. Miller.

WIN-TER-CIT'RON, n. [winter and citron.]

A sort of pear.

WIN'TER-CRESS, n. [winter and cress.]

A plant of the genus Erysimum.

WIN-TER-CROP, n. [winter and crop.]

A crop which will bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder during the winter. – Cyc.