winnow sheet (winoshet)

[Also dial. wim-sheet; His wijf walked him with a longe gode, In a cutted cote cutted full heyze, Wrapped in a wyn we schete to weren hire fro weders. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), L. 435. winrow, n. See windrow . winsey, n. Same as wincey . 6943 Winslow's foramen. See foramen of Winslow, under foramen. winterberry ter A izes Act, 1876 (39 and 40 Vict., c. 57), allows orders in council combining several counties for speedy trial of prisoners at winter a izes. - Winter beer. See Schenk beer, under beer1.- Winter bud. Same as statoblast. Winter chip-bird, the tree-sparrow, Spizella monticola, which comes into the United States in the fall, about the time the common chip-bird leaves. See tree - sparrow, 2. -Winter cholera, a form of diarrhea occurring during the winter months as an epidemic, due probably to im Winslow's ligament. See ligament of Wins low, under ligament. winsome (win's um), a. [ Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bonny bride, Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome marrow. The Braes of Yarrow (Percy's Reliques, II. iii. 24). We almost see his leonine face and lifted brow,.. the clear gray eye, and ineffably sweet and winsome smile. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 58. 2t. Kindly; gracious. And nil forgete alle his foryheldinges, That winsom es to alle thine wicken e es. Early Eng . Psalter (ed. Stevens on), cii. [A. V. ciii. 3). 3. Joyful; cheerful; merry; lively; gay. I gat your letter, winsome Willie. Winter cough, chronic bronchitis in which the cough appears with the first frosty weather in the autumn and continues as long as the cold weather lasts. - Winter cre . See winter-cre . - Winter crop. See crop. Winter daffodil. See Stern berg i a. - Winter duck. (a) The pintail or sprigtail duck, Dafila acuta. Montagu. [British.] (b) Specifically, Hareld a glacial is, in various parts of the United States. See cut under Hareld a. - Winter falcon. See falcon.- Winter fallow, ground that is fallowed in winter. Winter fat. Same as white sage ( a ) (which see, under sage2 ). - Winter fever, a fever, probably typhoid (though there was dispute as to its nature), which was prevalent in some of the then western States of the Union in the winter of 1842-3.- Winter goose. See goose. - Winter gull, a gull which appears in winter in a given locality, as the common gull, Larus can us, in England, or the herring gull in the United States. See cuts under gull and herring gull. Also winter - bonnet, winter mew. See kittiwake (with cut).- Winter hawk, the red-shouldered buzzard, Buteo Burns, To W. Simpson. line at us, common all the year in many parts of the United winsomely (win's um-li), adv. [ O Jock, sae winsomely 's ye ride, Wi' baith your feet upo' ae side! Jock o' the Side (Child's Ballads, VI. 86). [ winsomene (win's um-nes), n. The property or character of being winsome; attractivene ; loveline . J. R. Green. ( Imp . Dict.) winter1 (win'tér), n . and a. ter , winter (pl. winter also a year, = OS. wintar = OFries. D. LG. win- ter =OHG.wintar, MHG. G. winter = Icel. vettr , vittr (for * vintr ), mod. vetr = Sw. Dan. vinter = Goth. wintrus , winter, year; ulterior origin doubtful. The supposed connection with wind (as if winter were the 'windy season') is pho- netically improbable. Some suggest a connec- tion with Ofr. find , white, white, Old Gaulish Vindo- in several proper names.) I. n. 1. The cold season of the year. Astronomically winter is reckoned to begin in northern latitudes when the sun enters Capri- corn, or at the solstice (about December 21st), and to end at the equinox in March; but in ordinary speech winter comprises the three coldest months-December, January, and February being reckoned the winter months in the United States, and November, December, and January in Great Britain. In southern latitudes winter corresponds to the northern summer. See season . As an hosebonde hopeth after an hard wynter, Yf god gyueth hym the lif, to haue a good heruest. Piers Plowman (C), xiii. 196. Lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come. Cant. ii. 11. 2. A year: now chiefly poetical, with implication of a hard year or of frosty age. I trowe of thritty wynter he was oold. Chaucer , Shipman's Tale, 1. 26. And there I saw mage Merlin, whose vast wit And hundred winters are but as the hands Of loyal va als toiling for their liege. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 3. Figuratively, a period analogous to the winter of the year; a season of inertia or suspended activity, or of cheerle ne , drearine , or adversity. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak., Rich. III., i. 1. 1. The winter of sorrow best shows The truth of a friend such as you. Cowper, Winter Nosegay. States: a name due to the fact that the young of this bird was formerly taken as a different species, known as the winter falcon, Falco (or Buteo ) hiemal is. - Winter heliotrope. See heliotrope. - Winter hellebore. See hellebore, 2.-Winter hematuria, the pa age of bloody urine occurring in the winter months, and apparently as the result of cold.- Winter itch, a very annoying pruritus, chiefly of the lower extremities, occurring during the winter months. Winter mew. Same as winter gull. See cut under gull. [British.]-Winter moth. (a) A European geometrid moth, Cheimatobia brumata, whose larva feeds on the buds and foliage of plum-, cherry-, apple-, and other fruit-trees. The female is wingle , and lays her eggs on the twigs in autumn. The larvæ hatch in early spring, and often do great damage in England and the more northern European countries. The species also occurs in Green land. (b) See lime - tree winter moth, above. See -Winter pear. See pearl. - Winter pond, a protected pond used to keep fish, as carp, from perishing in severe weather.- Winter quarters, queening, rape. quarterl, etc. - Winter redbird, the cardinal grosbeak, which winters in the United States where other redbirds (tanagers) do not. (See cut under Cardinal is.) The antithesis is summer redbird ( Piranga æstiva ). - Winter rocket. See yellow - rocket. - Winter savory. See savory. - Winter shad. Same as mud - shad. Winter sleep, the hibernation or torpidity of an animal during cold weather. - Winter snipe. See snipel. - Winter solstice. See solstice, 1.- Winter teal, the American teal. See teall. - Winter wagtail, the gray wagtail, Motacilla boarula. Montagu. [British.]-Winter wheat. See wheat.-Winter wren, Troglodytes hiemal is. See wren, and cut under Troglodytes.