wimsheet (wimshet)

A provincial English form of winnow -sheet. winl (win), v.; pret. won (formerly also wan, still provincial), pp. won, ppr. winning. [ G. gewinnen, attain by labor, win, conquer, get, = Icel. vinna = Sw. vinna = Dan. vinde (for * vinne ), work, toil, win, = Goth. winn an (pret. wann, pp. wunnans ), suffer, endure pain; cf. Skt. van, get, win, also hold dear. From the same root are ult. E. winsome, wean, ween, wone, wont.] I. trans. 1. To acquire by labor, effort, or struggle; secure; gain. IMG:content-2403.png:[blocks in formation] Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. 79. His face was of that doubtful kind That wins the eye, but not the mind. Scott , Rokeby, v. 16. Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him? Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 67. Who eas'ly being won along with them to go, They altogether put into the wat'ry plain. Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 430. 9. In mining, to sink down to (a bed of coal) by means of a shaft; prepare (a bed of coal) for working by doing the nece ary preliminary dead-work: also applied to beds of ironstone and other ores. [Eng.] In the United States the word win, as used in mining, has frequently a more general meaning; it is thus defined in the glo ary of the Pennsylvania Survey: "To mine, to develop, to prepare for mining." See winning. The shaft [at Monk wear mouth] was commenced in May, 1826; it was continued for eight and a half years before the first workable coal was reached; and it was only in April, 1846, twenty years afterwards, that the enterprise was proved succe ful by the winning of the "Hutton Seam." Jevons, The Coal Question (2d ed.), p. 68. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary Storm stireth al the se, Thanne sumer and winter winnen . 2. To struggle; labor; work. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Thauh ze be trewe of zoure tonge and trewelich wynne, And be as chast as a chyld that nother chit ne fyghteth. Piers Plowman (C), ii. 176. 3. To succeed; gain one's end; especially, to be superior in a contest or competition; gain the victory; prove succe ful: as, let those laugh who win . So rewe on me, Robert, that no red haue, Ne neuere weene to wynne for craft that I knowe. IMG:content-2405.png:[blocks in formation] Bes wakond and warly; wyn to my chamber, There swiftly to sweire vpon swete (haloghes), All this forward to fulfill ye fest with your hond. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 649. I wynne to a thing. I retche to it. Je attayns. This terme is farre north ren. Palsgrave , p. 782. And arme you well, and make you redy, And to the walle ye wynne . wincel (wins), v.; pret. and pp. winced , ppr. win- cing . [Formerly also winch , wench ; , winchen, wynchen, wenchen, winchir , guinchir , guincher , guencher , guenchir , guencir, ganchir , wince, = Pr. guenchir , evade, OHG . wenkan , MHG. wenken , G. wanken , wince, totter, start aside; cf. OHG. wankōn , wanchon, waver, winch an , MHG. winken (pret. wank ), move aside, nod, G. winken , nod, = E. wink : see wink1, v.] I. in trans . 1. To shrink, as in pain or from a blow; start back: literally or figura- tively. Qwarelles qwayntly swappez thoro we knyghtez With iryne so wekyrly, that wynche they never. Rubbe there no more, least I winch , for deny I wil not that I am wrong on the withers. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 387. I will not stir, nor wince , nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly. Some fretful tempers wince at ev'ry touch; You always do too little or too much. IMG:content-2406.png:[blocks in formation] Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 128. An obsolete or dia- Philip winced under this allusion to his unfitne for active sports. 2t. To kick. Poul,. whom the Lord hadde chosun, that long tyme Wyclif , Prologue on Acts of Apostles. Long before the Child can crawl, He learns to kick, and wince , and sprawl. II.t trans. To fling by starting or kicking. A galled jennet that will winch him out o' the saddle. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, ii. 1. wincel (wins), n. [ wincel , v.] The act of one who winces; an involuntary shrinking move- ment or tendency; a slight start back or aside, wince2 (wins), n. [A corrupt form of winch1 .] In dyeing , a simple hand-machine for changing a fabric from one dye-vat to another. It consists of a reel placed over the division between the vats. The fabric, placed over it and turned either way, is transferred from one dye to another. When several vats are placed in line, and contain dyes, mordants, soap-suds, water, etc., a wince or reel is placed between each two, and the com- bined apparatus becomes a wincing-machine. In such a machine the vats are called wince - pots or wince- pits . Willie and May Margaret (Child's Ballads, II. 173). wincing. [ dyeing , to immerse We'll come nae mair unto this place, Cou'd we win safe awa'. IMG:content-2407.png:[blocks in formation] J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutter buck , B.[ritish] C.[olumbia], [1887, xii. [ obj . For dark grounds the pieces were finally winced in weak solution of bleaching powder, to rinse the full shade of color. O'Neill , Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 110. wince-pit, wince-pot (wins'pit, -pot), n. One of the vats of a wincing-machine. See wince2 . wincer (win'sėr), n. [ wince1 + -er1.] One who winces, shrinks, or kicks. Milton , Apol. for Smectymnuus, Pref. ( Latham .) wincey (win'si), n. [Also winsey ; supposed to be an abbr. of * linsey - winsey , which is supposed to be a riming variation of linsey - woolsey , a word subject to much manipulation.] A strong and durable cloth, plain or twilled, composed of a cotton warp and a woolen weft. Heavy winceys have been much worn as skirtings, and a lighter kind is used for men's shirts. They are sometimes made entirely winch1 (winch), n . [Also, corruptly, wince , winze , and dial. wink ; winche , wynche , the crank of a wheel or axle, wince , a winch; prob. orig. 'a bent' or 'a bent handle,' akin to wink1 and winkle , and so ult. to wince1 .] 1. The crank, projecting handle, or lever by which the axis of a revolving machine is turned, as in the com- mon windla , the grindstone, etc. See cut un- der Prony's dynamometer. One of them [musicians] turned the winch of an organ which he carried at his back. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 320. 2. A kind of hoisting-machine or windla , in which an axis is turned by means of a crank-han- dle, and a rope or chain is thus wound round it so as to raise a weight. There are various forms of wind1 (wind), v .; pret. and pp. wound (occasion- ally but le correctly winded ) , ppr. winding. [ME. winden , wynden (pret. wand , wond , pl. wunden, wonden, wounden, wonde , pp. wunden , wonden), wind an (pret. wand , wond , pp. wunden) = OS. wind an = OFries. wind a = D. LG. winden = OHG. wintan, wind an, MHG. winden , G. winden = Icel. vinda , turn, wind, = Sw. vinda = Dan. vinde , turn the eyes, squint, = Goth. wind an (in comp. bi - wind an , du - ga - win- dan ), wind; cf. F. guinder , It. ghindare , wind up, wend1 , wand, wander, windas , windla 1 , windla 2 , windle, etc.] I. in trans . 1. To move in this direction and in that; change direction; vary from the direct line or course; bend; turn; double. But evere the heed was left bihynde, For ought I couthe pulle or wynde . The yerde is bet that bowen wol and wynde Than that that brest. Chaucer , Troilus, i. 257. Dryden. 2. To go in a crooked or devious course; meander: as, the stream winds through the val- ley; the road winds round the hill. Whan that this leone e hath dronke her fille, Aboute the welle gan she for to wynde. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, Gray, Elegy. White with its sun-bleached dust, the pathway winds Before me. Whittier, Pictures, il. 3. To make an indirect advance; "fetch a compa "; "beat about the bush." You know me well, and herein spend but time To wind about my love with circumstance. You must not talk to him, As you do to an ordinary man, Honest plain sense, but you must wind about him. Beau, and Fl ., Woman-Hater, ii. 1. 4. To twine; entwine one's self or itself round something: as, vines wind round the pole.-5t. To twist one's self or worm one's way into or out of something. winches. Either the crank may be attached to the extrem- ity of the winding-roller or -axis, or a a large spur-wheel may be attached to the roller, and turned by a pinion on a sep a- rate crank-shaft (as shown in the cut), this arrangement tasime to save thy Miter. giving greater power. O thou that would'st winde into any figment or phan- Milton , Church-Government, i. 5. wind 6t. To turn or to about; twist; squirm. Thou art so lothly and so old also, And therto comen of so lough a kynde, That litel wonder is though I wal we and wynde.