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▪ I. † wining, n. Obs.
In white-wining [app. f. white wine + -ing3], a variety of apple.
1676Worlidge Vinetum Brit. etc. 161 The White-Wining, is a small white Apple;..the fruit juicy and pleasant, but soon perishing.
▪ II. wining, vbl. n.|ˈwaɪnɪŋ|
Also wineing.
[f. wine v. + -ing1.]
The drinking of wine in company. Also attrib.
1847Mrs. Gore Castles xiii. I. 287 Hampden's rooms [at Cambridge], where one of our so-called wining parties was prepared. 1891Daily News 2 Oct. 5/1 At the wining, he finished his reply to the toast of the evening with a happy conceit. 1917Morning Post 16 Feb. 4/2 Lunching, dining, and wineing with English members..made them the dupes of the Liberal party.
So ˈwining ppl. a., wine-drinking.
1755[E. Thompson] Meretriciad (1765) 13 When sep'rate you enjoy'd the wining man, What could resist a well-laid bedded plan?
▪ III. wining(e
obs. forms of winning vbl. n. |