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499 words match “WINE”

SHADOWINESS n.
The quality or state of being shadowy.
SHOWINESS n.
The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
SINEWINESS n.
Quality of being sinewy.
SPEWINESS n.
The state of being spewy.
SWINE n.
Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog. "A great herd of swine." Mark v. 11. Swine grass (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygon…
SWINE-POX n.
A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.
SWINEBREAD n.
The truffle.
SWINECASE n.
A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINECOTE n.
A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINECRUE n.
A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINEFISH n.
The wolf fish.
SWINEHERD n.
A keeper of swine.
SWINEPIPE n.
The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
SWINERY n.
Same as Piggery. [R.]
SWINESTONE n.
See Stinkstone.
SWINESTY n.
A sty, or pen, for swine.
TWINE n. 12 definitions
A twist; a convolution. Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton.
TWINER n.
Any plant which twines about a support.
UNTWINE v. 2 definitions
To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.
VIEWINESS n.
The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
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