*win*

adv. In a state of swinging. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + wing. ] On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ r }, a. Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arch.) A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.
Syn. -- bay window, bow window, bow-window. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a protruding abdomen. [ informal ]
Syn. -- belly, paunch, pot, potbelly, corporation, tummy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make wintry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. [ p. pr. & vb. n. of billow, verb ] 1. rising in billows. billowing smoke [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. stormy; affected by storms; -- of weather, used prenominally. calm
Syn. -- billowy, surging. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America (Polygala paucifolia), having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Syn. -- flowering wintergreen, gaywings, gay-wings, fringed polygala. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. prenom. 1. windy.
Syn. -- blustering(prenominal), blusterous, blustery, gusty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. processing that involves blowing a gas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The blue-winged teal. See Teal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) 1. The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bending manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Brandy. [ Obs. ] Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity brewed at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mixing together. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Far.) The heaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) a species of chatterer (Bombycilla cedrorum, formerly Ampelis cedrorum) widely distributed over temperate North America, so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cedar bird, cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing. It is a brownish bird about 7 inches long, between the size of a robin and a sparrow, has a crest on the head, a black face mask, and a yellow-tipped tail. The name comes from the black color of the tips of the wings, like that of a black sealing wax. They sometimes are seen in flocks. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) the common rufous-sided towhee of eastern North America, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.
Syn. -- chewink, rufous-sided towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.
Syn. -- chew, mastication. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also rufous-sided towhee, towhee, towhee bunting and ground robin. [ Also spelled cheewink. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning; the first light of day.
Syn. -- dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A fish; the goldsinny. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as bragging.
Syn. -- boastful, braggart(prenominal), bragging(prenominal), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From the name of Charles Darwin, an English scientist. ] Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled “The Origin of species by Means of Natural Selection.” The author argues that, in the struggle for existence, those plants and creatures best fitted to the requirements of the situation in which they are placed are the ones that will live; in other words, that Nature selects those which are to survive. This is the theory of natural selection or the survival of the fittest. He also argues that natural selection is capable of modifying and producing organisms fit for their circumstances. See Development theory, under Development. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of Darwinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Darwinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being dewy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

or /mhw>, n. [ Literally, the window of a sleeping apartment. F. dormir to sleep. See Dormant, a. & n. ] (Arch.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; in the direction toward which the wind is blowing; as, good hunters stay downwind of their prey. Opposite of upwind, and windward.
Syn. -- lee(prenominal), leeward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With the wind. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The act of pulling, or attracting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping. --
Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary. --
Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting. --
Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black chalk, or drawing chalk. --
Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room. ] 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Johnson ] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. 1. A woodworker`s and joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a window at a business establishment, such as a bank or restaurant, where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in their automobiles; as, to cash a check at the drive-in window of the bank. [ PJC ]

. (Elec.) A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dwindled p. pr. & vb. n. Dwindling ] [ From OE. dwinen to languish, waste away, AS. dwīnan; akin to LG. dwinen, D. dwijnen to vanish, Icel. dvīna to cease, dwindle, Sw. tvina; of uncertain origin. The suffix -le, preceded by d excrescent after n, is added to the root with a diminutive force. ] To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Weary sennights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions,
are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make less; to bring low. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To break; to disperse. [ R. ] Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [ R. ] Mrs. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]