wit herling2+ (wit herling)

[ All these braunches of here tikes fallen from the church, the vine of Christes mist i call body, seme the i neuer so freshe & grene, bee yet in dede but witherlinges. Sir T. More, Works, p. 186. with ern am (with'er-nam), n. [ wither nam, withernām (= G. wiedernahme ), re Esau, who did with go his birthright. Barrow , Sermons, III. xv. withhaultt (with-halt'). A spurious preterit of withhold . Spenser , F. Q., II. xi. 9. withhold (with-hold'), v . t .; pret. and pp. with held , ppr. withholding . [ withholden , with halde , keep back, hold back; with- , against, + hold1, v. Cf. withdraw.] I. trans . 1. To hold back; keep from action; restrain; check. Enforcest thow the to aresten or withholden the swyftne e and the sweygh of hir turnynge wheel? Chaucer, Boethius, ii. prose 2. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? Shak ., J. C., iii. 2. 108. Life, anguish, death, immortal love, Ceasing not, mingled, unrepre 'd, Apart from place, withholding time. He was fled, and so they mi ed of him; but understood that Squanto was alive; so they withheld, and did no hurt. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 71.