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The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

t; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.

en pippin. We will eat a last year's pippin. Shak. Normandy pippins, sun-dried apples for winter use.

d with masonry or boards, and covered with glass, but not artificially heated, -- used in winter for the storing and protection of half-hardly plants, and sometimes in the spring as a forcing bed. -- Pit coal, coal dug from the earth; mineral coal. -- Pit frame, the framework over the shaft of a coal mine. -- Pit he…

Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon.

To become soft or muddy. Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter. Mortimer.

hare (Zoöl.), a large hare of Arctic America (Lepus arcticus), which turns pure white in winter. It is probably a variety of the common European hare (L. timidus). -- Polar lights, the aurora borealis or australis. -- Polar, or Polaric, opposition or contrast (Logic), an opposition or contrast made by the existence…

hrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.

, which is observed in the Northern and Western United States; -- also called swamp itch, winter itch. -- Prairie marmot. (Zoöl.) Same as Prairie dog, above. -- Prairie mole (Zoöl.), a large American mole (Scalops argentatus), native of the Western prairies. -- Prairie pigeon, plover, or snipe (Zoöl.), the upland pl…

of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon.

proves salutary; the report proves false. "The case proves mortal." Arbuthnot. So life a winter's morn may prove. Keble.

y feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

confess his fears. I. Taylor. Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Longfellow.

tation or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters.

To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.] Winter's wrath begins to quell. Spenser.

ch is behind, or last on order; -- opposed to Ant: front. Nipped with the lagging rear of winter's frost. Milton.

in; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.

or state of being resty; sluggishness. [Obs.] The snake by restiness and lying still all winter. Holland.

Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.

Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.