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Definition of Dwined
1. dwine [v] - See also: dwine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwined
Literary usage of Dwined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... A bird without a mate — a ewe without a lamb : Onr hay was yet to maw, and
our corn was to shear, When they a' dwined awa' in the fa' o' the year. ..."
2. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"... and dried and dwined 1 away ; for the bishop nor none of his fellowes might
not make him to eate, and little hee ..."
3. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"Our hay was yet to maw, And our eorn was to shear, When they a' dwined awa' In
the fa' o' the year. I downa look a-field, For aye I trow I see The form that ..."
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