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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: winter - winze</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="winter"> winter, noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the coldest of the four seasons; time of the year between fall and spring. In northern latitudes winter is reckoned astronomically as beginning about December 22 (the winter solstice) and ending about March 21 (the vernal equinox), and popularly as comprising the months of December, January, and February or (in British use) November, December, and January. In southern latitudes winter corresponds in calendar time to the northern summer. Ex. His uncle and he would go toiling up the mountain side ... smashing their way through the dry and brittle undergrowth of barren Winter (Thomas Wolfe). <DD> 2. a year of life. Ex. a man of eighty winters. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) <DD> a. the last period of life. Ex. Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age (Herman Melville). <DD> b. a period of decline, dreariness, or adversity. Ex. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair (Dickens). <DD>adj. 1. of, having to do with, or characteristic of winter. Ex. winter weather, winter winds. The winter moon, brightening the skirts of a long cloud (Tennyson). <DD> 2. for the winter. Ex. winter clothes, winter sports. <DD> 3. of the kind that may be kept for use during the winter. Ex. winter apples. <DD> 4. sown in the fall and harvested in the spring. Ex. winter crops. <DD>v.i. to pass or spend the winter. Ex. Robins winter in the south. <DD>v.t. to keep, feed, or manage during winter. Ex. We wintered our cattle in the warm valley. noun winterer. </DL> <A NAME="winteraconite"> winter aconite,<DL COMPACT><DD> any plant of a group of small Old-World herbs of the crowfoot family, whose bright-yellow flowers appear very early in the spring. </DL> <A NAME="winterapple"> winter apple,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an apple that does not ripen till winter. <DD> 2. an apple that keeps well in winter. </DL> <A NAME="winterberry"> winterberry, noun, pl. -ries.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various North American hollies with berries, usually scarlet, that persist through the winter. </DL> <A NAME="winterbloom"> winterbloom, noun. =witch hazel.</DL> <A NAME="winterbourne"> winterbourne, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an intermittent stream that flows only in winter or at long intervals, found especially in certain chalk and limestone regions of England. </DL> <A NAME="wintercress"> winter cress,<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of plants of the mustard family, especially a common European weed naturalized in North America and sometimes used in salads; upland cress; Swedish cress. </DL> <A NAME="wintercrookneck"> winter crookneck,<DL COMPACT><DD> a winter squash with a long, curved neck. </DL> <A NAME="winterfeed"> winterfeed, verb, -fed, -feeding, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to feed or maintain (animals, etc.) during winter. <DD>noun food supplied to animals during winter. </DL> <A NAME="winterflounder"> winter flounder,<DL COMPACT><DD> a flounder of the coast of the eastern United States with the eyes on the right side of the head. </DL> <A NAME="wintergreen"> wintergreen, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a small, creeping, evergreen plant of North America with small, white, drooping flowers, bright-red berries, and aromatic leaves. An oil made from its leaves is used in medicine and candy. Wintergreen belongs to the heath family. The wintergreen is also called checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, and (incorrectly) partridgeberry. <DD> 2. this oil. <DD> 3. its flavor, or something flavored with it. <DD> 4. any other plant of the same group. <DD> 5. any one of a group of evergreen herbs, especially a woodland plant with roundish, drooping, white flowers; shinleaf. <DD> 6. any one of various low plants of an allied group; pipsissewa. </DL> <A NAME="wintergreenbarberry"> wintergreen barberry,<DL COMPACT><DD> a hardy evergreen barberry, originally from China, with spiny leaves and blue-black berries, used as an ornamental shrub. </DL> <A NAME="wintergreenoil"> wintergreen oil, =oil of wintergreen.</DL> <A NAME="wintergull"> winter gull, =kittiwake.</DL> <A NAME="winterhardy"> winter-hardy, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> able to withstand the effects of cold weather. </DL> <A NAME="winterize"> winterize, transitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to make (a mechanism, especially an automobile) ready for operation or use during the winter, as by putting antifreeze in the radiator and replacing a relatively heavy engine lubricant with a relatively light one. <DD> 2. to prepare (anything) for winter use or occupation. Ex. to winterize a house. noun winterization. </DL> <A NAME="winterkill"> winterkill, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD>v.t., v.i. to kill by or die from exposure to cold weather. Ex. The rosebushes were winterkilled. <DD>noun death of a plant or animal due to exposure to cold weather. </DL> <A NAME="winterless"> winterless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no winter; without wintry weather. </DL> <A NAME="winterly"> winterly, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of, belonging to, or occurring in winter. <DD> 2. like winter or that of winter; cold and cheerless; wintry. </DL> <A NAME="wintermelon"> winter melon,<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of muskmelon that keeps through part of the winter. It has a smooth skin and sweet flesh. </DL> <A NAME="winternelis"> winter Nelis,<DL COMPACT><DD> a Belgian variety of medium-sized, greenish-red pear, widely cultivated in the United States. </DL> <A NAME="wintersolstice"> winter solstice,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (for the Northern Hemisphere) the time when the sun is farthest south from the equator, about December 21 or 22. <DD> 2. the point on the ecliptic farthest south of the celestial equator, which the sun reaches at this time. It was formerly in the constellation Cancer, but is now in Sagittarius. Ex. Off the tip of the Archer's bow is the place of the winter solstice, where the sun is found about December 21 (Hubert J. Bernhard). </DL> <A NAME="wintersquash"> winter squash,<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various squashes that have hard shells and may be stored through the winter, such as the Hubbard squash or the winter crookneck. </DL> <A NAME="wintertide"> wintertide, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) wintertime. </DL> <A NAME="wintertime"> wintertime, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the season of winter; winter. </DL> <A NAME="winterwheat"> winter wheat,<DL COMPACT><DD> wheat planted in the autumn and ripening in the following spring or summer. </DL> <A NAME="winterwren"> winter wren,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, short-tailed wren of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. </DL> <A NAME="wintery"> wintery, adjective, -terier, -teriest. =wintry.</DL> <A NAME="wintle"> wintle, verb, -tled, -tling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD>v.i. 1. to roll or swing from side to side. <DD> 2. to tumble, capsize, or be upset. <DD>noun a rolling or staggering movement. </DL> <A NAME="wintry"> wintry, adjective, -trier, -triest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of winter; of such a kind as occurs in winter; like winter. Ex. wintry weather, a wintry sky. (SYN) hibernal. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) not warm or friendly; chilly; cold. Ex. a wintry smile, a wintry greeting, a wintry manner. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) <DD> a. aged. <DD> b. white with age; snowy. Ex. wintry hair. adv. wintrily. noun wintriness. </DL> <A NAME="wintu"> Wintu, noun, pl. -tu or -tus.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a member of a North American Indian tribe living in the region of Mount Shasta, in northern California. <DD> 2. the Copehan language of this tribe. <DD> 3. =Copehan. </DL> <A NAME="wintun"> Wintun, noun. =Wintu.</DL> <A NAME="winy"> winy, adjective, winier, winiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> tasting, smelling, or looking like wine. </DL> <A NAME="winze"> winze (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) an imprecation; curse. </DL> <A NAME="winze"> winze (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mining.) a shaft or an inclined passage connecting one level with another, but not rising to the surface. </DL> <A HREF="wipe.dic">NEXT</A>