Definition of winter

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Winter (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.

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Hibernaculum :: Hibernaculum (n.) A little case in which certain insects pass the winter.
Isocheim :: Isocheim (n.) A line connecting places on the earth having the same mean winter temperature. Cf. Isothere.
Shortness :: Shortness (n.) The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath..
Winter-beaten :: Winter-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
Last :: Last (v. i.) To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter..
Hutch :: Hutch (v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters..
Low :: Low (superl.) Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer..
Polygala :: Polygala (n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort..
Rude :: Rude (superl.) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter..
Statocracy :: Statoblast (n.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds..
Bewinter :: Bewinter (v. t.) To make wintry.
Midwinter :: Midwinter (n.) The middle of winter.
Rigorous :: Rigorous (a.) Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter..
Pearmain :: Pearmain (n.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain..
Fieldfare :: Fieldfare (n.) a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare..
Ptarmigan :: Ptarmigan (n.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter..
Winterkilling :: Winterkilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Winterkil.
Latibulize :: Latibulize (v. i.) To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid..
Solstice :: Solstice (v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion..
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms..
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