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wintry, a.|ˈwɪntrɪ|
Also 7 winterie, 9 -y.
[OE. wintriᵹ, = OHG. wintirig, etc., f. winter n.1 + -y1; but in modern use a new formation.]
1. Of or pertaining to winter; occurring, existing, or found in winter; adapted or suitable for winter. Now rare or merged in 2, being replaced by ‘winter’ attrib. (winter n.1 3).
c888ælfred Boeth. v. §2 Swa deð eac se ðe wintreᵹum wederum wile blostman secan. c893― Oros. i. i. 12 On þæm wintreᵹum tidum.
1611Cotgr., Hyvernal, winterie, winterlie. c1630Milton Passion 6 In Wintry solstice like the shortn'd light Soon swallow'd up in dark and long out-living night. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 271 The wise Ant her wintry Store provides. 1697― æneis vi. 298 The wintry Misleto. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 133 To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn. 1795Cowper Needless Alarm 20 Her berries red, With which the fieldfare, wint'ry guest, is fed. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. v. 40 Where the wintry edifices had fallen.
2. Having the quality of winter; of such a kind as occurs in winter; characteristic of winter.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 21 When wintry storme his wrathfull wreck does threat. 1713Rowe Jane Shore ii. 24 The Wintry Sky Descends in Storms. c1781Burns Winter i, The wintry west extends his blast. 1825Scott Betrothed ii, A barbed horse and his rider will fear to stem the wintry flood. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 120 At this period, the climate of equinoctial lands might resemble that of the present temperate zone, or perhaps be far more wintery. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. I. xxvii. 355 This mossing..is a frightfully wintry operation. 1876C. F. Hall Polar Exped. 415 Great ice-crystals..gave the vessel a wintery appearance.
3. Exposed or subject to the effect or influence of winter; chilled or blasted by winter.
1697Dryden æneis iv. 205 When he leaves the frost Of wintry Xanthus. 1803Heber Palestine 56 The wintry top of giant Lebanon. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam vi. xxviii, The wintry loneliness Of those dead leaves. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xii, Endless avenues and cross-avenues of wintry trees. 1918Blackw. Mag. Oct. 464/2 You saw nothing but a field or two of bleached wintry grass.
4. fig. with various shades of meaning; esp. (a) Aged, infirm or withered from age; (of hair) white with age, ‘snowy’; (b) devoid of fervour or affection, ‘cold’, ‘chilling’; (c) destitute of warmth or brightness, dismal, dreary, cheerless.
1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. vii. i, Cold, wintry, wither'd Tithon. 1748Richardson Clarissa lvi. (1768) III. 281 Nodding at each other in opposite chimney-corners in a winter-evening, and over a wintry Love. 1822Shelley Scenes fr. Faust ii. 15 Nothing of such an influence do I feel. My body is all wintry. 1846A. Marsh Fr. Darcy xliii, A faint wintry kind of hope. 1847Tennyson Princess vi. 310 So she, and turn'd askance a wintry eye. 1876Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly vi, Her cold face shone..with the wintry light of a forced smile. 1895Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 3/3 His latest work met with a somewhat wintry welcome. 1902W. Adamson Life Jos. Parker xv. 192 The..wintry locks of wisdom.
5. Used advb. qualifying another adj. poet.
1892W. Watson Poems 9 Thine..Is wintry chill.
Hence ˈwintrify |-faɪ| v., trans. to make wintry (rare); ˈwintrily adv., in a wintry manner (lit. and fig.); ˈwintriness, wintry quality or condition (lit. and fig.).
1855Lynch Lett. to Scattered vi. 88 Wise divine Love..re-imparting to a world which hate had *wintrified the summer warmth of life.
c1822Beddoes Poems, Pygmalion 159 Thou..dost shiver *Wintrily sad. 1867–8J. Thomson In the Room ii, Flies..now slept wintrily abashed. 1884Harper's Mag. Sept. 613/1 She..began..to smile wintrily.
1824in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1825) 512 With all this *winteryness, he is still a boy. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxii. (1856) 277 To the east and west there is no such interception to our winteryness. 1916Spectator 18 Mar. 383/1 On some morning when the harvest's done, And autumn its first wintriness reveals. |