Word Meanings - WINTERTIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Winter time. Tennyson.
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- 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. - 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. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - 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 - WINTERLY
Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden. - 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 - WINTER-RIG
To fallow or till in winter. - TWINTER
A domestic animal two winters old. - MIDWINTER
The middle of winter. Dryden. - BEWINTER
To make wintry.