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In a winning manner.

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 windrow.

Winsome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted. Misled by ill example, and a winsome nature. Jeffrey.

The characteristic of being winsome; attractiveness of manner. J. R. Green.

the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year. "Of thirty winter he was old." Chaucer. And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold. Shak. Winter lingering chills the lap of May. Goldsmith.

The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, or Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.

Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.

Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.

To fallow or till in winter. [Prov. Eng.]

A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled. [U. S.]

Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. [R.] Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden.

Winter time. Tennyson.