Word Meanings - WINTERKILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.

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• INCLEMENCY
  1. The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall. 2. Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather);
• 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.
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• WHEATBIRD
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• WHEATSEL BIRD
  The male of the chaffinch.
• 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.
• WHEATEN
  Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.
• 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
• WHEAT RUST
  A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.
• WINTERLY
  Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden.
• WHEATWORM
  A small nematode worm which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
• 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
• WHEATEAR
  A small European singing bird . The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird,
• WHEATSTONE'S RODS
  Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called
• TWINTER
  A domestic animal two winters old.
• COWWHEAT
  A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
• NOTWHEAT
  Wheat not bearded. Carew.
• MIDWINTER
  The middle of winter. Dryden.
• BEWINTER
  To make wintry.
• INEXPOSURE
  A state of not being exposed.