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.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 34 Wiþ eaᵹece ᵹenim wiþowindan twiᵹu. Ibid. 122 Wiþewindan twiᵹ foreweard. c 1050 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 428/36 Inuoluco, wiþewinde. c 1100 Gloss. ibid. 138/28 Uiticella, wiþwinde. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 525 In a withewyndes wise ywounden aboute. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxix. (Bodl. MS.), A tree þat is bi⁓clipped w{supt} yuye oþer wiþ weþewinde. 1533 Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 11 b, Thynges good for the Lyuer: Worme⁓wode: Wyth wynde. 1548 Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 30 Conuoluulus..called of the herbaries Volubilis, in english wythwynde or byndeweede. 1552 Huloet, Withwinde herbe, cassutha, cascuta, cissampelos, conuoluulus. 1580 T. Newton Approved Medicines 20 b, Smilax hortensis, Gardein withwinde. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1757) 382 Giving their lands a second tillage, perhaps to destroy the withwind. 1899 R. Bridges Idle Flowers xiv, Thro' the hedgerow peer Withwind and Snapdragon. |
| attrib. 1891 Hardy 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. |