winnowv.

Brit.

/ˈwɪnəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈwɪnoʊ/

Forms: α. Old English windwian, Middle English windwin, Middle English windwen, Orm. winndwenn, Middle English wyndewe, windewe, wyndwe, Middle English wyndowe, Middle English–1600s windowe, Middle English wyndou, wyndoe, Middle English–1500s wyndo, (1500s wyendo, wyondo, Scottish vyndou, wando), Middle English– (now northern dialect) window (1800s winder). β. Middle English wynwe, wynnewe, Middle English–1500s wynewe, Middle English wynou, wenowe, Middle English–1500s wynowe, 1500s wynew, wynnow(e, winowe, Scottish wonnow, 1500s–1600s winnowe, (1700s dialect winner), 1500s– winnow.

Etymology: Old English windwian , < wind wind n.¹; compare Old English windwigceaf chaff, windwigsife winnowing-sieve. Other verbal formations of the same meaning are Gothic diswinþjan to scatter like chaff, Old Norse vinza ( < *windisôjan ), and Latin ventilare ( < ventus wind). See also wind v.³

a. transitive. To expose (grain or other substances) to the wind or to a current of air so that the lighter particles (as chaff or other refuse matter) are separated or blown away; to clear of refuse material by this method.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)]

winnowa900

rinse?a1400

rid1421

redd1446

rede1450

card1612

unrubbish1645

flux1651

ripe1720

ream1967

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)] > clear (refuse)

winnowa900

to clear out1655

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > winnow

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van1340

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windle14..

wim1455

wimble1553

ventilate1609

dight?1611

eventilate1623

wind1786

wecht1804

α.

a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 7 Mar. 36 He..corn þærsc & þæt windwode.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 85 In þe deie of liureisun hwense god almihtin wule windwin þet er wes iþor[s]chen.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1530 Þa winndwesst tu þin þrosshenn corn.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 198 A wimmon..þet winwede hwete.

c1400 Mandeville xiii. (1919) I. 71 He..let wyndwe the askes in the wynd.

1469 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 21 Also that you gar the malt be windowd.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 7 Þen wyndo hit wele, nede þou mot.

1549 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 96 Quhatsumever personn was apprehendit wandoand corne in the hie gett.

1579 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 190 No mann shall wyndo aney corne in the strettes.

1614 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 296 Inconvenience by ye often vsinge to Windowe..Corne in the Streets.

1729 P. Walkden Diary 22 Sept. (1866) (modernized text) 45 Windowed my wheat the chaff out of it.

β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ruth iii. 2 In this nyȝt he wynnewith the flore of his barli.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 530/1 Wynwyn' (P. wynowin), ventilo.c1450 Mirk's Festial 185 Then made he to take vp þe bonys..and bren hom, and aftyr wynou ham yn þe wynde.?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xix In some countreis..they do fan their corne,..yf it be well wynowed or fande it wyll be solde the derere.1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 54 More often ye turne, more pease ye out spurne. Yet winnew [1577 winnow] them in, er carridge begin.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 61 And in the Sun your golden Grain display, And thrash it out, and winnow it by Day. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 216 It [sc. the coffee-berry] is then winnowed, and goes into the hands of the pickers.1855 E. Forbes Lit. Papers ix. 231 The tea is afterwards winnowed and sifted, so as to free it from impurities.1893 R. Bridges Winnowers v A steady muffled din, By which we knew that threshed corn Was winnowing.

b. figurative. To subject to a process likened to the winnowing of grain, in order to separate the various parts or elements, esp. the good from the bad; hence, to clear of worthless or inferior elements.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)]

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costeneOE

afondOE

provea1200

fraista1300

assay1330

sayc1330

try1362

approvec1380

examinea1382

winnowa1382

tempt1382

tastea1400

assailc1405

essay1484

scryc1615

sensea1688

test1748

trial1981

dogfood1997

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. li. 2 Y shal sende in to Babilon wyneweres [a1425 L.V. wyndeweris] and thei shul wynewe [a1425 L.V. wyndewe] it.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. f. 15–18 He shall..there winnowe euery creature, triyng them with the wynde of the crosse and of afflictions.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 192 We shall be winow'd with so rough a wind, That euen our corne shal seeme as light as chaffe.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 111 I..am right glad to catch this good occasion Most throughly to be winnowed, where my Chaffe And Corne shall flye asunder.

1646 J. Whitaker Danger of Greatnesse Ded. sig. A3^v His [sc. Satan's] desire is to winnow you; if he can ruin you he knows he ruins the Kingdom.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 5 That Plot,..Not weigh'd or winnow'd by the Multitude; But swallow'd in the Mass.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 407 I cannot abuse my Reader's Patience in winnowing and sifting it, since the whole is nothing but Chaff.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) I. 335 I wish it had been deemed advisable to have winnowed the Kalendar.

1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. viii. 456 After winnowing the list and excluding those who were considered not entitled to vote.

1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxix. 563 The storm had no doubt the effect of winnowing the multitude of professing disciples.

c. absol. or intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern, discriminate [verb (intransitive)]

winnowc1175

deem1340

knowa1398

discerna1413

perceive1495

descry1582

distinguish1612

discriminate1645

difference1646

differentiate1855

discrepate1894

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10483 Þatt ure laferrd iesu crist... Himm shollde brinngenn inn hiss hannd. Hiss winndell forr to winndwenn.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. v. 11 Wyndewe thee not in to ech wynd.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 23 Some vsith to winnew, some vsith to fan.

1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum C 1 b Plant, graft, hedg, ditch, thresh, winnow, buy & sel.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times ii. xviii. 92 He would Fan, as he doth winnow.

1825 Yorks. Garland etc. 16 Ah can milk, kern, fother, beeak, brew, sheear, winder.

1852 E. R. Pitman Mission Life in Greece (1881) 145 To help them so to winnow that they cast not away the wheat with the chaff.

2. transitive (with that which is separated as object.)

a. To separate or drive off (lighter or refuse particles) by the process described in sense 1; figurative to separate (the worthless part from the valuable); to get rid of, clear away, eliminate (something undesirable).In the earliest quots. a literalism from Latin ventilare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern [verb (transitive)] > distinguish, separate

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to pick outa1555

decern1559

difference1596

distinguisha1616

severalize1645

separate1651

secern1656

run1795

define1807

sequester1841

differentiate1857

divaricate1868

the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > clear out > clear of something undesirable

winnowc825

purge1340

dischargec1384

weedc1400

devoida1500

rid?1526

shift1567

free1613

scuffle1766

delouse1942

c825 Vesp. Psalter xliii. 6 [xliv. 5] In ðe fiond ure we windwiað.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xlix. 36 Y shal wynewe [a1425 L.V. wyndewe] them in to alle these windus.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxxiii. 17 In hem he shal wyndowe gentilys, vnto the teermes of the erthe.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 341 Þey..wynewede þe askes awey with þe wynde.

c1390 Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. (1791) 4 Hule hem wele, and windewe out the hulkes.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 27 Distinction with a broad and powerfull fan, Puffing at all, winnowes [printed winnowss] the light away.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 53 Do but winnow their chaffe from their wheat, ye shall see their great heape shrink.

1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 161 Your office is to winnow false from true.

1869 J. R. Lowell Under Willows 229 And lets the kind breeze, with its delicate fan, Winnow the heat from out his dank grey hair.

1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. i. 84 And all my doubts I fling from me like dust, Winnow and scatter all scruples to the wind.

1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. xvi. 359 The appointment..winnowed out the merely sentimental element from among adherents of the young Movement.

b. To separate (the valuable part from the worthless); (now esp. with out) to extract, select, or obtain (something desirable) by such separation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern [verb (transitive)] > distinguish, separate > valuable part

winnowa1616

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > separate valuable from worthless

leasec1420

to weed outc1485

winnowa1616

post-cribrate1627

garble1655

weed1833

to screen out1887

screen1943

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 134 Giue answer to this Boy, and do it freely, Or..bitter torture shall Winnow the truth from falshood.

1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 These inventions were but sives, made of purpose to winnow the best men.

1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Matt. iii. 12 He will winnow and throughly separate the wheat from the Chaff, the Faithful from the Rebellious.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. vii. 244 I live too near the times..to be able..to winnow the truth from such a variety of interested..relations.

1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. In winnowing out the few grains of truth which are contained in this mass of empty fiction.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. viii. 111 To winnow out the man that is to govern them.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 905 Such persons are probably many, but there is no means of winnowing them out.

c. To waft, diffuse. poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by or as by a puff or gust

whiffa1618

winnow1764

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 7 Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 22 The woolly clouds..Keep winnowing down their drifting sleet and snows.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. i. 23 With wings that winnow blessing From Heaven through Earth I see them pressing.

3. In various transferred uses (cf. Latin ventilare and fan v. 2 – 5):

a. †To brandish or flourish (obsolete); to beat (the air) with or as with wings; to flap (the wings), to wave (the fins); also intransitive or with cognate object, to follow a course with flapping wings, or the like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > flap or beat up and down

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > flap or beat up and down

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1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 92 Players haue chosen such a Champion, as when I giue the Allarm, winnowes his weapon.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 270 He..Sailes between worlds & worlds, with steddie wing Now on the polar windes, then with quick Fann Winnows the buxom Air.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 37 Their self-taught Wings Winnow the waving Element.

1793 J. Wolcot Ode to Innoc. in Wks. (1812) III. 223 The winnowing Butterfly with painted wing.

1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 794 The waken'd lav'rock..Winnowing blythe her dewy wings In morning's rosy eye.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. i. 63 Her sea-green plumes Winnowing the crimson dawn.

1844 E. B. Barrett Duchess May in Poems II. 93 Angel-wings, with their holy winnowings.

1852 L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania II. xviii. 252 Their [sc. owls'] ghostly shapes winnowing silently around in the twilight.

1856 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 3) 120 Small cuttle-fish..put into a jar, will hover and dart in the water..by rapid winnowings of their glassy side-fins.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Faustine in Poems & Ballads 110 After change of soaring feather And winnowing fin.

1873 A. Geikie Geol. Sketches (1882) iv. 78 In winnowing the air with his arms, he had struck against a waggon standing on the roadway.

1887 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 200/1 After..reaching a height at which it appears a mere speck, where it winnows a random zigzag course, it..shoots downwards.

b. Of the air, etc.: transitive. To fan with a breeze. intransitive. To blow fitfully or in gusts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow fitfully

shrink1627

snuffle1633

winnow1801

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > blow upon gently

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winnow1801

1801 T. Campbell Caroline ii, in Morning Chron. 12 Aug. 3/1 Where, winnow'd by the gentle air, Her silken Tresses darkly flow.

1820 J. Keats To Autumn ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 138 Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 7 Falling snows that winnow by.

1892 A. Rives Barbara Dering xxvii Here upon this great crest a purer air came winnowing in.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	winnow
释义	winnown. Brit. /ˈwɪnəʊ/, U.S. /ˈwɪnoʊ/ Forms: Also 1500s -owe. Etymology: < winnow v. 1. A contrivance for winnowing grain, etc.; a winnowing-fan or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > fan, cloth, or basket fana800 windlec1175 weight1354 winnowing-cloth1375 winnow-sheetc1394 winnow-cloth1404 vanc1450 wind-cloth1500 wimsheet1532 winding-cloth1548 shaul1553 winnow1580 wan?1615 sail-fan1707 wind-screen1763 wind-sheet1891 1580 H. F. tr. S. Pelegromius Synonymorum Sylua 126/2 A Fan or a Winnowe. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Threshing The casting-shovel is much more expeditious than..the common winnow with sails. 1818 R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. 132 Osiris has the winnow in one hand, and the hook of attraction in the other. 1890 Sci. Amer. 14 June 374/2 [Leaves of Palmyra palm] largely employed for making pans, bags, winnows [etc.]. 2. An act of winnowing or a motion resembling it, as the swing of a pendent mass, the sweep of wings. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > flapping or beating up and down > instance of waft1652 flap1774 winnow1802 1802 S. T. Coleridge Picture 148 How solemnly the pendent ivy-mass Swings in its winnow. 1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) III. 454 Some degree of humidity..which should be swept away by the winnow of a stirring breeze. a1851 D. M. Moir Birth Flowers v From every winnow of her wings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). winnowv. Brit. /ˈwɪnəʊ/, U.S. /ˈwɪnoʊ/ Forms: α. Old English windwian, Middle English windwin, Middle English windwen, Orm. winndwenn, Middle English wyndewe, windewe, wyndwe, Middle English wyndowe, Middle English–1600s windowe, Middle English wyndou, wyndoe, Middle English–1500s wyndo, (1500s wyendo, wyondo, Scottish vyndou, wando), Middle English– (now northern dialect) window (1800s winder). β. Middle English wynwe, wynnewe, Middle English–1500s wynewe, Middle English wynou, wenowe, Middle English–1500s wynowe, 1500s wynew, wynnow(e, winowe, Scottish wonnow, 1500s–1600s winnowe, (1700s dialect winner), 1500s– winnow. Etymology: Old English windwian , < wind wind n.¹; compare Old English windwigceaf chaff, windwigsife winnowing-sieve. Other verbal formations of the same meaning are Gothic diswinþjan to scatter like chaff, Old Norse vinza ( < windisôjan ), and Latin ventilare* ( < ventus wind). See also wind v.³ 1. a. transitive. To expose (grain or other substances) to the wind or to a current of air so that the lighter particles (as chaff or other refuse matter) are separated or blown away; to clear of refuse material by this method. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)] winnowa900 rinse?a1400 rid1421 redd1446 rede1450 card1612 unrubbish1645 flux1651 ripe1720 ream1967 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)] > clear (refuse) winnowa900 to clear out1655 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > winnow fanc1000 van1340 winnow1382 windle14.. wim1455 wimble1553 ventilate1609 dight?1611 eventilate1623 wind1786 wecht1804 α. a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 7 Mar. 36 He..corn þærsc & þæt windwode. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 85 In þe deie of liureisun hwense god almihtin wule windwin þet er wes iþor[s]chen. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1530 Þa winndwesst tu þin þrosshenn corn. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 198 A wimmon..þet winwede hwete. c1400 Mandeville xiii. (1919) I. 71 He..let wyndwe the askes in the wynd. 1469 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 21 Also that you gar the malt be windowd. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 7 Þen wyndo hit wele, nede þou mot. 1549 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 96 Quhatsumever personn was apprehendit wandoand corne in the hie gett. 1579 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 190 No mann shall wyndo aney corne in the strettes. 1614 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 296 Inconvenience by ye often vsinge to Windowe..Corne in the Streets. 1729 P. Walkden Diary 22 Sept. (1866) (modernized text) 45 Windowed my wheat the chaff out of it. β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ruth iii. 2 In this nyȝt he wynnewith the flore of his barli.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 530/1 Wynwyn' (P. wynowin), ventilo.c1450 Mirk's Festial 185 Then made he to take vp þe bonys..and bren hom, and aftyr wynou ham yn þe wynde.?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xix In some countreis..they do fan their corne,..yf it be well wynowed or fande it wyll be solde the derere.1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 54 More often ye turne, more pease ye out spurne. Yet winnew [1577 winnow] them in, er carridge begin.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 61 And in the Sun your golden Grain display, And thrash it out, and winnow it by Day. View more context for this quotation1825 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 216 It [sc. the coffee-berry] is then winnowed, and goes into the hands of the pickers.1855 E. Forbes Lit. Papers ix. 231 The tea is afterwards winnowed and sifted, so as to free it from impurities.1893 R. Bridges Winnowers v A steady muffled din, By which we knew that threshed corn Was winnowing. b. figurative. To subject to a process likened to the winnowing of grain, in order to separate the various parts or elements, esp. the good from the bad; hence, to clear of worthless or inferior elements. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] fandc893 costeneOE afondOE provea1200 fraista1300 assay1330 sayc1330 try1362 approvec1380 examinea1382 winnowa1382 tempt1382 tastea1400 assailc1405 essay1484 scryc1615 sensea1688 test1748 trial1981 dogfood1997 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. li. 2 Y shal sende in to Babilon wyneweres [a1425 L.V. wyndeweris] and thei shul wynewe [a1425 L.V. wyndewe] it. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. f. 15–18 He shall..there winnowe euery creature, triyng them with the wynde of the crosse and of afflictions. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 192 We shall be winow'd with so rough a wind, That euen our corne shal seeme as light as chaffe. View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. i. 111 I..am right glad to catch this good occasion Most throughly to be winnowed, where my Chaffe And Corne shall flye asunder. View more context for this quotation 1646 J. Whitaker Danger of Greatnesse Ded. sig. A3^v His [sc. Satan's] desire is to winnow you; if he can ruin you he knows he ruins the Kingdom. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 5 That Plot,..Not weigh'd or winnow'd by the Multitude; But swallow'd in the Mass. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 407 I cannot abuse my Reader's Patience in winnowing and sifting it, since the whole is nothing but Chaff. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) I. 335 I wish it had been deemed advisable to have winnowed the Kalendar. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. viii. 456 After winnowing the list and excluding those who were considered not entitled to vote. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxix. 563 The storm had no doubt the effect of winnowing the multitude of professing disciples. c. absol. or intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern, discriminate [verb (intransitive)] winnowc1175 deem1340 knowa1398 discerna1413 perceive1495 descry1582 distinguish1612 discriminate1645 difference1646 differentiate1855 discrepate1894 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10483 Þatt ure laferrd iesu crist... Himm shollde brinngenn inn hiss hannd. Hiss winndell forr to winndwenn. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. v. 11 Wyndewe thee not in to ech wynd. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 23 Some vsith to winnew, some vsith to fan. 1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum C 1 b Plant, graft, hedg, ditch, thresh, winnow, buy & sel. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times ii. xviii. 92 He would Fan, as he doth winnow. 1825 Yorks. Garland etc. 16 Ah can milk, kern, fother, beeak, brew, sheear, winder. 1852 E. R. Pitman Mission Life in Greece (1881) 145 To help them so to winnow that they cast not away the wheat with the chaff. 2. transitive (with that which is separated as object.) a. To separate or drive off (lighter or refuse particles) by the process described in sense 1; figurative to separate (the worthless part from the valuable); to get rid of, clear away, eliminate (something undesirable).In the earliest quots. a literalism from Latin ventilare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern [verb (transitive)] > distinguish, separate winnowc825 tryc1330 distinguea1340 divide1377 departc1380 devisea1400 sever1426 perceivea1500 deem1530 discern1533 searcec1535 sort1553 to pick outa1555 decern1559 difference1596 distinguisha1616 severalize1645 separate1651 secern1656 run1795 define1807 sequester1841 differentiate1857 divaricate1868 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > clear out > clear of something undesirable winnowc825 purge1340 dischargec1384 weedc1400 devoida1500 rid?1526 shift1567 free1613 scuffle1766 delouse1942 c825 Vesp. Psalter xliii. 6 [xliv. 5] In ðe fiond ure we windwiað. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xlix. 36 Y shal wynewe [a1425 L.V. wyndewe] them in to alle these windus. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxxiii. 17 In hem he shal wyndowe gentilys, vnto the teermes of the erthe. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 341 Þey..wynewede þe askes awey with þe wynde. c1390 Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. (1791) 4 Hule hem wele, and windewe out the hulkes. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 27 Distinction with a broad and powerfull fan, Puffing at all, winnowes [printed winnowss] the light away. View more context for this quotation 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 53 Do but winnow their chaffe from their wheat, ye shall see their great heape shrink. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 161 Your office is to winnow false from true. 1869 J. R. Lowell Under Willows 229 And lets the kind breeze, with its delicate fan, Winnow the heat from out his dank grey hair. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. i. 84 And all my doubts I fling from me like dust, Winnow and scatter all scruples to the wind. 1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. xvi. 359 The appointment..winnowed out the merely sentimental element from among adherents of the young Movement. b. To separate (the valuable part from the worthless); (now esp. with out) to extract, select, or obtain (something desirable) by such separation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern [verb (transitive)] > distinguish, separate > valuable part winnowa1616 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > separate valuable from worthless leasec1420 to weed outc1485 winnowa1616 post-cribrate1627 garble1655 weed1833 to screen out1887 screen1943 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 134 Giue answer to this Boy, and do it freely, Or..bitter torture shall Winnow the truth from falshood. View more context for this quotation 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 These inventions were but sives, made of purpose to winnow the best men. 1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Matt. iii. 12 He will winnow and throughly separate the wheat from the Chaff, the Faithful from the Rebellious. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. vii. 244 I live too near the times..to be able..to winnow the truth from such a variety of interested..relations. 1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. In winnowing out the few grains of truth which are contained in this mass of empty fiction. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. viii. 111 To winnow out the man that is to govern them. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 905 Such persons are probably many, but there is no means of winnowing them out. c. To waft, diffuse. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by or as by a puff or gust whiffa1618 winnow1764 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 7 Sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 22 The woolly clouds..Keep winnowing down their drifting sleet and snows. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. i. 23 With wings that winnow blessing From Heaven through Earth I see them pressing. 3. In various transferred uses (cf. Latin ventilare and fan v. 2 – 5): a. †To brandish or flourish (obsolete); to beat (the air) with or as with wings; to flap (the wings), to wave (the fins); also intransitive or with cognate object, to follow a course with flapping wings, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > flap or beat up and down wavea1530 flask1565 flap1567 winnow1579 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > flap or beat up and down fanc1400 swapa1529 wavea1530 flap1692 winnow1852 flail1874 flip-flop1924 1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 92 Players haue chosen such a Champion, as when I giue the Allarm, winnowes his weapon. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 270 He..Sailes between worlds & worlds, with steddie wing Now on the polar windes, then with quick Fann Winnows the buxom Air. View more context for this quotation 1728 J. Thomson Spring 37 Their self-taught Wings Winnow the waving Element. 1793 J. Wolcot Ode to Innoc. in Wks. (1812) III. 223 The winnowing Butterfly with painted wing. 1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 794 The waken'd lav'rock..Winnowing blythe her dewy wings In morning's rosy eye. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. i. 63 Her sea-green plumes Winnowing the crimson dawn. 1844 E. B. Barrett Duchess May in Poems II. 93 Angel-wings, with their holy winnowings. 1852 L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania II. xviii. 252 Their [sc. owls'] ghostly shapes winnowing silently around in the twilight. 1856 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 3) 120 Small cuttle-fish..put into a jar, will hover and dart in the water..by rapid winnowings of their glassy side-fins. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Faustine in Poems & Ballads 110 After change of soaring feather And winnowing fin. 1873 A. Geikie Geol. Sketches (1882) iv. 78 In winnowing the air with his arms, he had struck against a waggon standing on the roadway. 1887 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 200/1 After..reaching a height at which it appears a mere speck, where it winnows a random zigzag course, it..shoots downwards. b. Of the air, etc.: transitive. To fan with a breeze. intransitive. To blow fitfully or in gusts. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow fitfully shrink1627 snuffle1633 winnow1801 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > blow upon gently fan1600 flabel1653 winnow1801 1801 T. Campbell Caroline ii, in Morning Chron. 12 Aug. 3/1 Where, winnow'd by the gentle air, Her silken Tresses darkly flow. 1820 J. Keats To Autumn ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 138 Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 7 Falling snows that winnow by. 1892 A. Rives Barbara Dering xxvii Here upon this great crest a purer air came winnowing in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1580v.c825
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