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The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley.

The land-locked variety of the common salmon. [Canada]

To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor. Ruth. iii. 2.

One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowing machine.

The act of one who, or that which, winnows.

A cross between a male horse and a female zebra.

Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation.

A kind of mica containing lithium, often associated with tin ore.

Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

mic principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero. -- Absolute zero (Physics), the be ginning, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273º centigrade or -459.4º Fahrenheit.

An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. [Obs.]

an or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

A spiny-finned fish.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

ful; -- often in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

One who achieves; a winner.