withywindn.
/ˈwɪðɪwʌɪnd/ Now dialect.
= withwind n.
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weedbind1551
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ivy-bindweed1578
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sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597
sea-withwind1597
soldanella1597
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bethwine1609
volubilis1664
Scotch scurvy-grassa1722
black bindweed1785
calystegia1880
sea convolvulus1921
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lii. 391 Of smothe Bindweede, or Withiwinde. The great white Bindeweede or soft withiwinde.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. liii. 393 Of blacke Withiwinde, or Bindeweede.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Campanilla yerva Withie winde, Smilax.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. iii. 610 Whiter Galat then the white withy-wind.
1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick iii. xix. 105 The seed of withy-winde being planted neer to Basil, [etc.].
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 83 Withy-wine, the plant bindweed.
1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 114 The clematis, the ‘withy-wind’ of our peasantry.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. x. 202 You could twist him to your will like withywind, if you only had the mind.
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