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ared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. xx. 1. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. Milto…

olia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

One who drinks much wine. Prov. xxiii. 20. -- Wine"bib`bing, n.

A small glass from to drink wine.

As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.

destitute of wine; as, wineless life.

A place where grapes are converted into wine.

A variety of winter apple of medium size, deep red color, and yellowish flesh of a rich, rather subacid flavor.

Brandy. [Obs.] Wiseman.

State of being dewy.

To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.

To waste away; to pine; to languish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Gower.

To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

To dwindle away; to disappear. [Obs.] Rom of R.

To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.

To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]

The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.

. Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar. Simmonds.

To disentangle. [Obs.]