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Virginia creeper, under Virginia. [Local, U. S.] Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

The woodbine or honeysuckle. Spenser.

cted by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

Expansion of parts. No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine. Bacon.

vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U.S.] -- Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence. -- Virginia nightingale (Zoöl.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal. -- Virginia quail (Zoöl.), the bobwhite. -- Virginia reel, an old Englis…

; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball. Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. Milton.

Woodbine. Dryden. A garland . . . of woodbind or hawthorn leaves. Chaucer.