win 
To win one's blue, one's shoes, one's spurs, the 
broose, the kern, the toss, the whetstone. See the 
nouns.— To win the go, to win the prize; be victor; 
come oflf tirst; excel all corapetitors. [Scotch.] 
II. intraiis. If- To strive ; vie; eouteud. 
Storm stireth al the se, 
Thanue sumer and winter winiien. 
Old Ej^. Misc. (ed. Morris), p. 17. 
2. To struggle; labor; work. [Obsolete or 
prov. Eng.] 
Thauh ge be trewe of goure tonge and trewelich loymic. 
And be as chast as a chyld that nother chit ne fyghteth. 
Piers Plowman (C), ii. 176. 
3. To succeed; gaiu one's end; especially, to 
be superior in a contest or competition ; gain 
the victory; prove successful: as, let those 
laugh who win. 
So rewe on me, Robert, that no red haue, 
Ne neuere weene to wynne for craft that I knowe. 
Piers Plowiiuxii (A), v. 251. 
Nor is it aught but just 
That he who in debate of truth hath won 
Should win in ai-nis. MUton, P. L., vi. 122. 
Charles Fox used to say that the most delightful thing 
in the world was to %mn at cards. 
Mortimer Collins, Thoughts in my Garden, II. 31. 
4. To reach; attain; make one's way; succeed 
in making one's way: with to. [Obsolete or 
provincial.] 
Bes wakond and warly ; wyn to my chamber, 
There swiftly to sweire vpon swete (haloghes), 
All this forward to fulfill ye fest with your bond. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 649. 
I Wynne to a thing. I retche to it. Je attayns. . . . 
This terme is farre northren. Palsgrave, p. 782. 
And arme you well, and make you redy, 
And to the walle ye wynne. 
Lytell Geste of Robyn Mode (Child's Ballads, V. 99). 
Eh, my rheumatizy be that bad howiver be I to win to 
the burnin'? Tennyson, Queen Mary, iv. 3. 
I will not be her judge. Perhaps when we win to the 
greater light we may see with ditferent eyes. 
W. Black, In Far Lochaber, xxiv. 
5. To get; succeed in getting: as. to if?i« in (to 
get in); to icin through; to win loose; to win 
up, down, or away; to win on (to get on, either 
literally or figuratively). [Obsolete or provin- 
cial.] 
"Say me, frende," quoth the freke with a felle chere, 
"Hov wan thou in-to this won in wedez S(» fowleV" 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 140. 
She hath ynough to doen, hiu-dily, 
To vnnnen from hire fader, so trow I. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 1125. 
Ye canna win in this nicht, Willie, 
Nor here ye canna be ; 
For I've nae chambers out nor in, 
Nae ane but barely three. 
Wiilie and May Margaret (Child's Ballads, II. 173). 
We'll come nae mair unto this place, 
Cou'd we win safe awa'. 
King Malcolm and Sir Colvin (Child's Ballads, III. 381). 
Win thro' this day with honour to yourself, 
And I'll say something for you. 
Tennyson, Queen Mary, iv. 2. 
To win by a head. See head. — To win In a canter. 
See caiUer'.— To win on or upon, (a) To gain favor or 
influence : as, to wiyi upon the heart or affections. 
I at last, unwilling, . . . 
Thought I would try if shame could win upon 'em. 
B. Jonson, Apol. to Poetaster. 
You have a softness and beneficence winning on the 
hearts of others. Dryden. 
{b) To gain ground on ; gain upon. 
The rabble . . . will in time 
Win upon power. Shak., Cor., i. 1. 224. 
Thus, at half ebb, a rolling sea 
Returns and wins upon tlie shore. 
Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, 1. 140. 
win^t (win), n. Strife; contention. 
With al mankin 
He haueth nith [envy] and win. 
Old Eng. Misc. (ed. Morris), p. 8. 
win'-^ (win), r. t. ; pret. and pp. winned, ppr. icin- 
nin<j. [Abbr. of wlnd''^, t'.] To dry or season 
by exposure to the wind or air : as, to win hay ; 
to ivin peats. [Scotch and Irish.] 
winberry, wimberry (win'-, wim'ber*i), v.; 
\A. winberries, wimherries (-iz). [Also sometimes 
wliinberry ; a dial, form, with shortened vowel, 
of ivineberry.'] A whortleberry. 
Here also was a profusion of raspberries, and a blue 
beri-y not unlike a larf^c wi^nberry, but growing on a bush 
often several feet in height. 
J. A. Lees and W. -J. CluUerbuck, B.[ritish] C.[olumbiaj, 
[1887, xii. 
win-bread (win'bred), n. [< «'/;/!, v.y + obj. 
bread'] That which earns one's living or one's 
wealth and advancement, as a mechanical trade, 
the sword of a soldier of fortune, etc. [Rare.] 
The sword of the military adventurer, even of knightly 
dignity, is sometimes called the gaciie-pain or u-in-bread 
(wffu-brod), signifying that it is U) his brand the soldier 
nuist look for the advancement of liis frutuiiL'. 
Uewitt, Anc. Armovir, II. 2j3. 
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wince^ (wins), v. ; pret. and pp. tvinced, ppr. win- 
cing. [^FoimerlyaXso winch, wench; <ME. !«i«ccH, 
winsen, toyiisen, winchen, wynchen, wenchen, < OF. 
*wiHchir, guinchir, guincher, guencher, guenehir, 
guencir, ganchir, wince, = R-. guenehir, evade, 
< OHG. wenkan, MHG. wenlcen, G. wanken, wince, 
totter, start aside; cf. OHG. wankon, wunchiin, 
waver, < winchan, MHG. winken (pret. wank), 
move aside, nod, G. winken, nod, = E. wink: see 
wink^, I'.] I. intrans. 1. To shrink, as in pain 
or from a blow ; start back: literally or figura- 
tively. 
Qwarelles qwayntly swappez thorowe knyghtez 
With iryne so wekyrly. that wynche they never. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1, 2104. 
Rubbe there no more, least I winch, for deny I wil not 
that I am wrong on the withers. 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 887. 
I will not stir, nor wince, nor spealc a word, 
Nor look upon the iron angerly. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 1. 81. 
Some fretful tempers wince at ev'ry touch ; 
You always do too little or too much. 
Cowper, Conversation, 1. 325. 
Philip winced under this allusion to his unfitness for 
active sports. Qeorge Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ii. 3. 
2t. To kick. 
Poul, . . . whom the Lord liaddechosun, tliat long tyrae 
wynside agen the pricke. 
Wyclif, Prologue on Acta of Apostles. 
3t. To wriggle ; twist and turn. 
Long before the Child can crawl. 
He learns to kick, and wince, and sprawl. 
Prior, Alma, i. 
Il.t trans. To fling by starting or kicking. 
A galled jennet that will winch him out o' the saddle. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, ii. 1. 
wincel (wins), n. [< wince'^, r.] The act of one 
who winces; an involuntary shrinking move- 
ment or tendency ; a slight start back or aside, 
as from pain or to avoid pain. 
It is the pitcher who will notice the unavoidable wince 
that is the proof of a catcher's sore hand. 
W. Camp, St. Nicholas, XVII. 829. 
wince^ (wins), «. [A corrupt form of winch'^.'] 
In dyeing, a simple hand-machine for changing 
a fabric from one dye-vat to another. It consists 
of a reel placed over the division between the vats. The 
fabric, placed over it and turned either way, is transferred 
from one dye to another. When several vats are placed in 
line, and contain dyes, mordants, soap-suds, water, etc., 
a wince or reel is placed between each two, and the com- 
bined apparatus becomes a wincing-machine. In such 
a machine the vats are called wince-pot^ or wince-pit^. 
Also winch. 
wince^ (wins), v. t. ; pret. and pp. winced, ppr. 
wincing. \_<. wince^, n.'] Indyeing, to immerse 
in the bath by turning the wince or winch. 
For dark grounds the pieces were finally winced in weak 
solution of bleaching powder, to rinse the full shade of 
color. O'Neill, Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 110. 
wince-pit, wince-pot (wins'pit, -pot), w. One 
of the vats of a wincing-machine. See wince^. 
wincer (win'ser), )(. [< wince^ + -eel.] One who 
winces, shrinks, or kicks. Hilton, Apol. for 
Smectymnuus, Pref. (Latham.) 
wincey (win'si), M. [Also «,•(«.«'(/ ,- supposed to 
be an abbr. of *li)i,icy-icinscy, which is supposed 
to be a riming variation of linsey-woolgey, a word 
subject to much manipulation.] A strong and 
durable cloth, plain or twilled, composed of a 
cotton warj) and a woolen weft. Heavy winceys 
have been much worn as skirtings, and a lighter kind is 
used for men's shirts. They are sometimes made entirely 
of wool. 
winchl (winch), «. [Also, corruptly, wince,win::e, 
and dial, wink ; < ME. winche, ivynche, the crank 
of a wheel or axle, < AS. wince, a winch; jirob. 
orig. 'a bent' or 'a bent handle,' akin to tcink'^ 
and winkle, and so ult. to M.'inw'l.] 1. The crank, 
projecting handle, or lever by which the axis 
of a revolving machine is turned, as in the com- 
mon windlass, the grindstone, etc. See cut un- 
der Prony's dynamometer. 
One of them [musicians] turned the winch of an organ 
which he carried at his back. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 320. 
2. A kind of hoisting-machine or windlass, in 
which an axis is turned 
by means of a crank-han- 
dle, and a rope or chain 
is thus wound round it 
so as to raise a weiglit. 
There are various forms of 
winches. Either the crank 
may be attached to the extrem- 
ity of the winding-roller or 
-axis, or a lai'ge spur-wheel may 
be attached to the roller, and ^\'illch. 
turned by a pinion on a sepa- 
rate crank-shaft (as shown in the cut), this arrangement 
giving greater power. 
wind 
There was a coal-mine . . . which he used frequently 
to visit, going down to the workings in a basket lowered 
by a winch. Nineteenth Certiury, XXVI. 770. 
3. Tliereeldfafishing-rod. — 4. Same as icjiicc'^. 
—Gipsy wlncli. See ifi>«)/-w»ji«A.— Spun-yam wincli, 
a small winch with a fly-wheel, used on board ship for 
making spun yarn. — Steam-winch, a winch driven by 
steam, in common use on steam-vessels for loading and 
dischai'ging cargo. 
winch^ (winch), t'. t. [< winch'^, n.] To hoist or 
haul by means of a winch. 
He, being placed in a chaire. . . . was -winched vp in 
that chaire, and fastened vnto the maineyard of a galley, 
and hoisted vp with a crane, to shew him t<j all. 
UakluyVg Voyagee, II. 128. 
winch''^ (winch), V. and n. An obsolete or dia- 
lectal form of wince^. 
Winchester bushel. See bushel^, 1. 
Winchester gooset. [.Also called Winchester 
pigeon : said to allude to the fact that the stews 
in Southwark were in the 16th century under 
the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Winchester.] 
A bubo; hence, a person affected with bubo. 
Shakspere has the phrase "goose of Win- 
chester," T. and C, v. 10. 55. [Old slang.] 
Winchester gun or rifle. See rifle^. 
Winchester pint. A measure a little more 
than a wine-pint and less than a beer-pint. 
wincingt. a. [< ME. wynsynge; ppr. of wince'^, 
i'.] Kicking; hence, skittish; lively. 
Wynsynge she was as is a joly colt. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 77. 
wincing-machine (win'sing-ma-shen'''), «. In 
dyeing, an apparatus consisting of a series of 
vats containing dyes, mordants, soap-suds, etc., 
with a wince or reel between each two. See 
tcince^. 
Winckel's disease. A disease occui-ring in in- 
fants, tlie chief symptoms of which are jaun- 
dice, bloody urine, and cyanosis. It common- 
ly terminates fatally in a few days. 
wincopipet (wing'ko-jnp), n. The scarlet pim- 
pernel, Anagallis arvensis. See wink-a-peep. 
There is a smiUl red flower in the stubble-fields, which 
country people call the wincopipe; which if it oi>en8 in 
the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 827. 
windl (wind), v.; pret. and pp. wound (occasion- 
ally but less correctly winded), ppr. winding. 
[< ME. winden, wynden (pret. wand, wond, pi. 
wunden, wonden, wounden, wonde, pp. wunden, 
wonden), < AS. windan (jjret. wand, wond, pp. 
wunden) = OS. windan = OFries. winda = D. 
LG. winden = OHG. wintan, windan, MHG. 
winden, 6. winden = Icel. vinda, turn, wind, = 
Sw. rinda = Dan. vinde, turn the eyes, squint, 
= Goth, windan (in comp. bi-windan, du-ga-win- 
dan), wind; cf. F. yuinder, It. ghindare, vrind 
up, < MHG.; root unknown. From the verb 
xcind^ are ult. E. wend^, wand, wander, windas, 
windla.ss^, windlass^, windle,eto.'\ 1. intrans. 1. 
To move in this direction and in that ; change 
direction ; vary from the direct line or course ; 
bend ; turn ; double. 
But evere the heed was left bihynde. 
For ought I couthe pulle or wynde. 
Horn, of the Roge, L 1810. 
The yerde is bet that bowen wol and icynde 
Than that that brest. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 267. 
So swift your judgments turn and wind. Dryden. 
2. To go in a crooked or devious course; 
meander : as, the stream winds through the val- 
ley ; the road winds round the hill. 
Whan that this leonesse hath dronke her fille, 
Aboute the welle gaii she for to wynde. 
Chaucer, Good Women, L 818. 
It was difficult to descend into the valley to the north 
east, in which we returned, and, winding round the vale 
to the west, came to Beer- Emir. 
PocQcke, Description of the East, II. i. 63. 
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. 
Oray, Elegy. 
White with its sun-bleached dust, the pathway winds 
Before me. Whittier, Pictures, ii. 
3. To make an indirect advance; "fetch a 
compass''; "beat about the bush." 
You know me well, and herein spend but time 
To trind about my love with circumstance. 
Shak., M. of v., i. 1. 154. 
You must not talk to him. 
As you do tt) an ordinary man. 
Honest plain sense, but you must irind about him. 
Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, ii. 1. 
4. To twine ; entwine one's self or itself rotmd 
something: as, vines wind round the pole. — 5t. 
To twist one's self or worm one's way into or 
out of something. 
O thou that would'st icinde into any figment or phan- 
tasime to save thy Miter. 
Milton, Church-Governmeut, L 5. 
