Word Meanings - MIDWINTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The middle of winter. Dryden.

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• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• WINTER'S BARK
  The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• WINTERWEED
  A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.
• WINTERY
  Wintry.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• WINTER-GROUND
  To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.
• WINTER-PROUD
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.
• WINTERKILL
  To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
• WINTERGREEN
  A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf In America, the name wintergreen is given
• WINTERLY
  Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden.
• WINTERTIDE
  Winter time. Tennyson.
• WINTER
  OHG. wintar, G. winter, D. & Sw. vinter, Icel. vetr, Goth. wintrus; of uncertain origin; cf. Old Gallic vindo- white , OIr. find white. 1. The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the
• WINTER-RIG
  To fallow or till in winter.
• MIDDLE-AGED
  Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
• TWINTER
  A domestic animal two winters old.
• MIDWINTER
  The middle of winter. Dryden.
• BEWINTER
  To make wintry.