Winter

one of the four seasons or quar- ters of the year. Winter properly commences on the day when the sun’s distance from the zenith of the place is the greatest, or when his declination ts the greatest on the contrary side of the equa- tor; and it ends on the day when that distance is a mean between the greatest and least, or when he next cro es the equincctial. To WitnTeER. v. n. (from the noun.) To pa the winter (Isaiah). Wy wy