† forˈdwine, v. Obs.
[f. for- prefix1 + dwine; = MDu. verdwijnen.]
intr. To fade away, decay, wither; to vanish.
| c 1000 ælfric Saints' Lives (E.E.T.S.) II. 268 Se deofol þær-rihte for-dwan swa swa smic of þæs halᵹan ᵹesihðe. a 1300 Old Age vi. in E.E.P. (1862) 149 When i bi-hold on mi schennen m'in dimmiþ al for-dwynnen. c 1305 Pilate 215 ibid. 117 His bodi gan al fordwyne. ? a 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 366 Bothe hir hondes lorn, fordwyned. |