Midwinter: alternatives and connections

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry,…

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performa…

The warmth of the sun felt during cold winter weather.

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the north…

relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even numbe…

A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

Of or pertaining to winter.

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.

The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.

The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.

A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called becau…

To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or b…