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withwind Now dial.|ˈwɪθwaɪnd|
Forms: 1 wiþo-, wiþewinde, 2 wiþwinde, 4 weþewinde, withe-, wythe-, weythwynde, 6 with-, wythwynde, 6–7 withwinde, 6– withwind.
[OE. wiþowinde, wiþe-, later wiþwinde, f. wiþo-, wiþe- (related to withe) + winde wind n.2; corresp. to OS. withewind ‘caprifolium’, MLG., MDu. wedewinde ‘caprifolium’, ‘periclymena’, ‘hedera’, ‘ligustrum’; for the first element cf. OE. weoþobend withbind, for the second, OE. widuwinde ivy, convolvulus; see also withywind.]
Bindweed, Convolvulus arveniss or C. sepium; also C. Soldanella (Sea Withwind: see sea n. 23 f). Applied also, like bindweed, to other climbing plants, e.g. dodder, smilax, traveller's joy.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 34 Wiþ eaᵹece ᵹenim wiþowindan twiᵹu. Ibid. 122 Wiþewindan twiᵹ foreweard. c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 428/36 Inuoluco, wiþewinde. c1100Gloss. ibid. 138/28 Uiticella, wiþwinde. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 525 In a withewyndes wise ywounden aboute. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxix. (Bodl. MS.), A tree þat is bi⁓clipped wt yuye oþer wiþ weþewinde. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 11 b, Thynges good for the Lyuer: Worme⁓wode: Wyth wynde. 1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 30 Conuoluulus..called of the herbaries Volubilis, in english wythwynde or byndeweede. 1552Huloet, Withwinde herbe, cassutha, cascuta, cissampelos, conuoluulus. 1580T. Newton Approved Medicines 20 b, Smilax hortensis, Gardein withwinde. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 382 Giving their lands a second tillage, perhaps to destroy the withwind. 1899R. Bridges Idle Flowers xiv, Thro' the hedgerow peer Withwind and Snapdragon.
attrib.1891Hardy Group of Noble Dames ii. 90 One of those sweet-pea or with-wind natures which require a twig of stouter fibre than its own to hang upon and bloom. |