withering floor (WITHering flor)

The drying-floor of a malt-house: according to the established arrangement, the second floor. All such [imperfect] grains are apt to become very damaging upon the withering floor. Ure, Dict., III. 187. witheringly (with'er-ing-li), adv . In a manner tending to wither or cause to shrink. But we must wander witheringly , In other lands to die. Byron, Hebrew Melodies, The Wild Gazelle.