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Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.

Quality of being sinewy.

Sinewy. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Having no sinews; hence, having no strength or vigor.

Sinewy. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews. The sinewy thread my brain lets fall. Donne.

To snow; to abound. [Obs.] It snewed in his house of meat and drink. Chaucer.

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.

Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.

Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone. Mortimer.

Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.

To deprive of sinews or of strength. [R.] Dryden.

A bout, or turn, as at fencing; a thrust; a hit; a veney. [Obs.] Fuller.

Same as Vinnewed.

Moldy; musty. [Written also vinewed.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Vin"newed*ness, n. [Obs.] Many of Chaucer's words are become, as it were, vinnewed and hoary with over-long lying. F. Beaumont.

Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.

ed with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

epeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.