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fertile and beautiful, resembling a nobleman’s park. The 
place has declined, and its population has fallen from 4000 
to 2000 souls. The British had here a small fort, garrisoned 
by only seven men, which, being wholly out of a condition 
to defend itself, and indeed quite useless, has been recently 
withdrawn. 
WINNENTHALL, a village of Germany, in Wirtem- 
berg, near Wineden. 
WI'NNER, s. One who wins. 
Go together. 
You precious "winners all; your exultation 
Partake to every one. Shakspeare. 
WINNERSH, or Winhurst, a hamlet of England, in 
Berkshire, near Oakingham. 
WINNIKI, a village of Austrian Poland, to the south of 
Lemberg. It has a great manufactory of tobacco and snuff, 
on account of government. Population 2300. 
WI'NNING, participial adj. Attractive; charming. 
Yet less fair, 
Less winning soft, less amiably mild, 
Than that smooth wat’ry image. Milton. 
WI'NNING, s. The sum won.—A simile in one of Con¬ 
greve’s prologues compares a writer to a buttering gamester, 
that, stakes all his winnings upon every cast; so that if he 
loses the last throw, he is sure to be undone. Addison. 
WINNINGE, a river of England, in Lancashire, which 
runs into the Lune; about 6 miles north-east of Lancaster. 
WINNINGEN, a town of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, on the Moselle, with 900 inhabitants. 
WINNINGTON, a parish of England, in Salop, south¬ 
west of Cause Castle.—2. A township in Cheshire; 1 mile 
north-west of Norwich.—3. A hamlet in Staffordshire; 9± 
miles north-west of Eccleshall. 
WINNIPIC LAKE, a lake of North America, in Upper 
Canada, north west of lake Superior. It lies between 50. 30. 
and 54. 32. N. lat., and between 95. 50. and 99. 30. W. 
long. It is 217 miles long, including Baskescoggan or Play 
Green Lake, its northern arm; and is 100 miles broad from 
the Canadian House on the east side, to Sable river on the 
west side. It receives the waters of a number of small lakes 
in every direction, and exhibits a number of small isles. The 
lands on its banks are said, by Carver and other travellers, 
to be very fertile, producing vast quantities of wild rice, and 
the sugar-tree in great plenty. The climate is considerably 
more temperate here than it is upon the Atlantic coast, 10 
degrees farther southward. 
WINNIPIC RIVER, a river of North America, in Upper 
Canada, which runs north-west into the lake of the same 
name. It is an outlet for the waters of a vast chain of lakes, 
the chief of which are La Pluie and Lake of the Woods, and 
is a large body of water, interspersed with numerous islands, 
causing various channels, and interruptions of passages, and 
rapids; so that its navigation is very intricate and dangerous. 
At the bottom of this river there is a provision store of the 
North-west Company, in Lat. 50. 33. 12. N. 
WINNIPISEOGEE, a lake of the United States, in Straf¬ 
ford county, New Hampshire. 20 miles long, and 8, where 
widest, broad. It is a beautiful lake, of a very irregular form, 
and contains a number of islands. 
WINNIPISEOGEE, a river of the United States, in New 
Hampshire, which runs from Lake Winnipiseogee, into the 
Merrimack, south of Sanbornton. 
To WI'NNOW, v. a. [pinbpian, Saxon ; evanno, Latin.] 
To separate by means of the wind; to part the grain from 
the chaff. 
Were our royal faith martyrs in love, 
We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind, 
That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff, 
And good from bad find no partition. Shakspeare. 
To fan ; to beat as with wings. 
Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan 
Winnows the buxome air. Milton. 
To sift; to examine. 
Winnow well this thought, and you shall find 
’Tis light as chaff that flies before the wind. Dry den. 
To separate; to part. 
Bitter torture shall 
Winnow the truth from falsehood. Shakspeare. 
To WI'NNOW, v. n. To part corn from chaff.— Win¬ 
now not with every wind, and go not into every way. 
Ecclus. 
WINNOWE, St., a parish of England, in Cornwall; 3 
miles south-east of Lestwithiel. Population 782. 
WI'NNOWER, s. He who winnows. 
WINNSBOROUGH, a post town of the United States, 
and capital of Fairfield county, South Carolina. It contains 
a court-house and a jail, and about 200 inhabitants; 30 miles 
north-north-west of Columbia, and 145 north-north-west of 
Charlestown. 
WINNWEILER, a town of Germany, and chief place of 
the county of Falkenstein, belonging to Austria; 10 miles 
north-north-east of Kaiserslautern. Population 1000. 
WINSCHOTEN, a small but fortified town of the Nether¬ 
lands, the capital of a district in the province of Groningen ; 
20 miles east-by-south of Groningen. Population 2700. 
W1NSCALES, a township of England, in Cumberland ; 
3k miles south-east of Workington. 
WINSCOMBE, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
2 miles north-by-east of Axbridge. Population 1113. 
WINSCOT, a hamlet of England, in Devonshire, near 
Torrington. 
WINSEN, a town of Germany, in Hanover, on the small 
river Luhe, which is navigable to this town ; 18 miles south¬ 
east of Hamburg. Population 1400. 
WINSFOIID, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 4f 
miles north-by-west of Dulverton. Population 486. 
WINSIIAM, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 4 
miles south-east of Chard. 
WINSHILL, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 1 ]| 
miles south-west of Derby. 
WINSLADE, a parish of England, in Southamptonshire; 
3 miles south-by-east of Basingstoke. 
WINSLEY, a hamlet of England, in Wiltshire, near 
Bradford.—2. A hamlet in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 
nearRipon. 
WINSLOW (James Benignus), an eminent anatomist, was 
born in 1669 at Odensee, in the isle of Funen, and having 
studied a year under Borrichius, was sent with a pension 
from the king of Denmark to seek improvement in the prin¬ 
cipal universities of Europe. In 1698 he became a pupil of 
the celebrated anatomist Duverney at Paris, and during his 
residence in this capital, he abjured Protestantism, and was 
confirmed by Bossuet, assuming in addition to his own bap¬ 
tismal name that of his converter, Benignus. Hafier denomi¬ 
nates Winslow “ simple and superstitious,” and of course 
his conversion to the Catholic faith afforded no great occa¬ 
sion for triumph. This event, however, detached him from 
his family and native country, and was the means of fixing 
his abode in France, where the patronage of Bossuet was 
highly favourable to his advancement, and served to obtain 
for him the degree of doctor in 1705. In 1707 Duverney 
recommended him to be an eleve of anatomy in the Academy 
of Sciences. He afterwards read lectures of anatomy and 
surgery for Duverney at the royal garden ; and, in 1743, was 
promoted to the professorship in this institution. In the 
meanwhile he communicated .several papers on anatomical 
and physiological subjects to the Academy of Sciences, by 
which body, as well as by the Royal Society of Berlin, he 
was admitted into the number of associates. His great work, 
mentioned by Haller as superseding all former compositions 
of anatomy, and entitled “ Exposition Anatomique de la 
Structure du Corps Humain,” first appeared at Paris in 1732, 
4to. It was frequently reprinted, and translated into various 
languages; and is still regarded as of standard authority. 
Winslow planned, but never finished, a larger work, of 
which 
