Word Meanings - WINTERKILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
Related words: (words related to WINTERKILL)
- INCLEMENCY
1. The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall. 2. Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather); - WINTER-BEATEN
Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser. - WINTER'S BARK
The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577. - WINTERWEED
A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior. - WINTERY
Wintry. - WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
See BRIDGE - WHEATBIRD
A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch. - WHEATSEL BIRD
The male of the chaffinch. - WINTER-GROUND
To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak. - WINTER-PROUD
Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland. - WHEATEN
Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper. - WINTERKILL
To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled. - WINTERGREEN
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf In America, the name wintergreen is given - WHEAT RUST
A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself. - WINTERLY
Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden. - WHEATWORM
A small nematode worm which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm. - WINTERTIDE
Winter time. Tennyson. - WINTER
OHG. wintar, G. winter, D. & Sw. vinter, Icel. vetr, Goth. wintrus; of uncertain origin; cf. Old Gallic vindo- white , OIr. find white. 1. The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the - WHEATEAR
A small European singing bird . The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, - WHEATSTONE'S RODS
Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called - TWINTER
A domestic animal two winters old. - COWWHEAT
A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields. - NOTWHEAT
Wheat not bearded. Carew. - MIDWINTER
The middle of winter. Dryden. - BEWINTER
To make wintry. - INEXPOSURE
A state of not being exposed.