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e earth thrown up in making such a ditch. On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington.

A line connecting places on the earth having the same mean winter temperature. Cf. Isothere.

To sharpen; to make cold. [R.] Cold winter keens the brightening flood. Thomson.

he United States service the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab.

ment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid. [R.] G. Shaw.

burnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths. [Written also laurustine and laurestina.]

of stationery; -- colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot. I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I. Walpole.

Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.

ce, to change; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.

The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter. "Moderate showers." Walter.

y jack. -- Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection.

any one of several American marine crabs of the genus Panopeus. -- Mud dab (Zoöl.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and Dab. -- Mud dauber (Zoöl.), a mud wasp. -- Mud devil (Zoöl.), the fellbender. -- Mud drum (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for remo…

A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. "Sad winter's night". Spenser.

ation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.

ty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter. Bacon.

o established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe. Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration. I. Taylor.

the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter.

le, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself. -- Partridge dove (Zoöl.) Same as Mountain witch, under Mountain. -- Partridge pea (Bot.), a yellow-flowe…