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win⋅try

[win-tree]
–adjective, -tri⋅er, -tri⋅est.
1. of or characteristic of winter: wintry blasts; wintry skies.
2. resembling winter weather; having snow, frost, cold, storms, etc.: We had wintry weather well into May last year.
3. suggestive of winter, as in lack of warmth or cheer: a wintry manner.
Also, wintery.


Origin:
bef. 900; OE wintrig (not recorded in ME); see winter, -y 1


win⋅tri⋅ly, adverb
win⋅tri⋅ness, noun


3. cold, bleak, cheerless.
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