Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WIN'NOW-ING, ppr.

Separating from the chaff by wind; examining.

WINSOME, a.

Cheerful; merry.

WINTER, n. [Sax. G. D. Sw. and Dan.; from wind, or its root; Guth. 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.

WINTER, 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-APPLE, 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.

WINTER-BER-RY, n. [winter and berry.]

A plant of the genus Princa. Lee.

WINTER-BLOOM,

on [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, `rich is of the size of a ' cherry. Lee. Miller

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

A sort of pear.

WINTER-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.

WIN'TER-ED, pp.

Kept through the winter; lived through the winter.

WIN-TER-FAL'LOW, la. [winter and fallow.]

Ground that is fallowed in winter.

WIN-TER-GAR-DEN, n. [winter and garden.]

An ornamental garden for winter.

WINTER-GREEN, n. [winter and green.]

A plant of the genus Pyrola, useful as a vulnerary. Also plants of the genera Chimaphila and Gaultheria. Cyc.

WIN'TER-ING, ppr.

Passing the winter; keeping in winter.

WIN'TER-KILL, v.i.

To be killed by the winter. Wheat is liable to winter-kill in moist land.

WINTER-KILL, v.t. [winter and kill.]

To kill by means of the weather in winter; as, to winter-kill wheat or clover. New England.

WINTER-KILL-ED,

pp: Killed by the winter, as grain.

WINTER-KILL-ING, ppr.

Killing by the weather in winter.

WINTER-LODE, or WIN'TER-LODG-MENT, n. [winter and lodge.]

In botany, the hybernacle of a plant, which protects the embryo or future shoot front injuries during the winter. It is either a bud or a bulb. Encyc.

WINTER-LY, a.

Such as is suitable to winter. [Little used.] Shak.