Word Meanings - WINTERWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.

• Winter-proud
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.
• Winter's bark
  The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WINTERBEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• WINTERGROUND
  To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.

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