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Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery. Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile. Keble.

The stormy petrel. Witch balls, a name applied to the interwoven rolling masses of the stems of herbs, which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. Tumbleweed. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' besoms (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus. Maun…

A curse; a malediction. Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice South.

A place where wood is stored.

A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.

Avenger. [Obs.] The stork, the wrekere of avouterye [adultery]. Chaucer.

pen portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.

A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn. [Colloq.]

tswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.…