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Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 23 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

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The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.

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Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

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An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.

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To spend the winter (in a particular place).

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When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.

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To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.

It looked nice against her winter paled skin.

One cold winter night I was alone in my room.

But the brightest summer has winter behind it.

I was using the bathroom after Betsy and heard her tell Martha she'd slept like winter bear.

Gradually winter released its grip and flowers erupted from the ground in celebration of spring.

Must be the winter air.

But my house occupied so sunny and sheltered a position, and its roof was so low, that I could afford to let the fire go out in the middle of almost any winter day.

I had an old axe which nobody claimed, with which by spells in winter days, on the sunny side of the house, I played about the stumps which I had got out of my bean-field.

Keep dilly-dallying with lunch and winter will be over!

And, if practice makes perfect, Ouray, blessed with a beautiful but long winter season, gave its citizens ample opportunity to do just that.

The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer.

He has two neighbours, who live still farther north; one is King Winter, a cross and churlish old monarch, who is hard and cruel, and delights in making the poor suffer and weep; but the other neighbour is Santa Claus, a fine, good-natured, jolly old soul, who loves to do good, and who brings presents to the poor, and to nice little children at Christmas.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

This heap, made in the winter of '46-7 and estimated to contain ten thousand tons, was finally covered with hay and boards; and though it was unroofed the following July, and a part of it carried off, the rest remaining exposed to the sun, it stood over that summer and the next winter, and was not quite melted till September, 1848.

There are demons in the forest surrounding the Immortals. winter stronghold.

In the winter, snowshoeing and skiing are popular, both downhill and cross-country.

Winter mountain driving was not for the reckless or faint of heart, but the Deans were neither.

The winter of 1892 was darkened by the one cloud in my childhood's bright sky.

In the winter the landscape is bleak and the house is drafty.

The whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, sounding like the scream of a hawk sailing over some farmer's yard, informing me that many restless city merchants are arriving within the circle of the town, or adventurous country traders from the other side.

In winter the climate is very fine.

I amused myself one winter day with sliding this piecemeal across the pond, nearly half a mile, skating behind with one end of a log fifteen feet long on my shoulder, and the other on the ice; or I tied several logs together with a birch withe, and then, with a longer birch or alder which had a hook at the end, dragged them across.

This model came out back this winter.

The cold early winter wind dried the tears on his face and made his cheeks stiff.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy.

Suddenly an influx of light filled my house, though the evening was at hand, and the clouds of winter still overhung it, and the eaves were dripping with sleety rain.

With the living shadow staring at her, the winter wind sucking the air from her lungs, and the prescriptions clenched in her hand, she'd never felt less a part of her world.

In one country he meets with women who, after the burial in the winter, become alive again in the spring full of youth and beauty.

More dreaded than the frosts are the terrible burans or snowstorms, which occur in early spring and destroy thousands of horses and cattle that have been grazing on the steppes throughout the winter.

But, while we were discussing plans for the winter, a suggestion which Dr. Hale had made long ago flashed across Teacher's mind--that I might take courses somewhat like those offered at Radcliffe, under the instruction of the professors in these courses.

I sometimes left a good fire when I went to take a walk in a winter afternoon; and when I returned, three or four hours afterward, it would be still alive and glowing.

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

That winter the Karagins' house was the most agreeable and hospitable in Moscow.

The rising winter sun made the heavy clothing almost unnecessary.

There was a small clearing where the trail opened up to a spectacular view of winter time Mount Abrams.

Would winter be less miserable if the house was warm?

The only sound was that of Ed walking and an occasional winter bird song.

During all the terrible winter which followed, his energy and spirit never failed him.

Europe, and it attains its maximum velocity in winter.

The shortness of the summer, the deficiency of drainage and the depth to which the soil freezes in winter, are the circumstances which determine the characteristic features of the vegetation of the tundras.

Cattle have to be housed for the winter.

Owing to the forced abstention from agricultural labour in the winter months the peasants of central Russia, more especially those of the governments of Moscow, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Tver, Smolensk and Ryazan have for centuries carried on a variety of domestic handicrafts during the period of compulsory leisure.

In winter, when the lake is covered with ice 3 ft.

After resting at Newport, he went for the winter to be under the care of a physician at Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks for the winter.

There is more inorganic nitrogen in the sea near the land than in mid-ocean and there is more at the sea bottom than near the surface; finally, there is more in the later winter than at any other season.

At midnight on the 6th of December 1741, with a few personal friends, including her physician, Armand Lestocq, her chamberlain, Michael Ilarionvich Vorontsov, her future husband, Alexius Razumovski, and Alexander and Peter Shuvalov, two of the gentlemen of her household, she drove to the barracks of the Preobrazhensky Guards, enlisted their sympathies by a stirring speech, and led them to the Winter Palace, where the regent was reposing in absolute security.

During the winter the smaller tributaries freeze to the bottom, and about 1st January Lake Baikal becomes covered with a solid crust of ice capable of bearing files of loaded sledges.

Its foreshore consists of a great expanse of firm, bright sands, and the mildness of its winter climate is attributed to the radiation of heat from them.

The cottage was vacant and the windows boarded up for the winter.

Folks around here tend to wear gloves in the winter when it gets that nippy.