Vine
[vaɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface.
Editor: Vito--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
(n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
Edited by Elvis
Definition
n. the plant from which wine is made: the woody climbing plant that produces grapes: (hort.) a climbing or trailing plant or its stem.—adj. Vīnā′ceous belonging to wine or grapes: wine-coloured.—ns. Vī′nāge the addition of spirit to wine to enable it to stand transportation; Vīnā′lia a wine festival in honour of Jupiter celebrated on 23d April.—adjs. Vīnā′rian relating to wine; Vine′-clad covered with vines.—ns. Vine′-cul′ture (same as Viticulture); Vine′-curcu′lio a small reddish curculio producing galls on the stems of grape-vines; Vine′-disease′ a disease affecting the vine; Vine′-dress′er one who dresses or trims and cultivates vines; Vine′-fret′ter a small insect that infests vines; Vine′-gall a gall made on the stem of the vine by a vine-curculio; Vine′-land land on which vines are grown; Vī′nery a hot-house for rearing vines; Vineyard (vin′yard) a plantation of grape vines.—adj. Vī′nic pertaining to or derived from wine.—ns. Vin′iculture the cultivation of the vine; Vin′icultūrist; Vin′-ordinaire′ common wine: cheap wine mixed with water commonly drunk in France and the south of Europe.—adjs. Vī′nose Vī′nous pertaining to wine: wine-coloured: caused by wine.—n. Vinos′ity state or quality of being vinous.—adj. Vī′ny pertaining to or producing vines.—Dwell under one's vine and fig-tree to live at peace on one's own land.
Editor: Stu
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of vines, is propitious of success and happiness. Good health is in store for those who see flowering vines. If they are dead, you will fail in some momentous enterprise. To see poisonous vines, foretells that you will be the victim of a plausible scheme and you will impair your health.
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Examples
- Oh for rest under my own vine and my own fig-tree! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Five or six only were completed, which were called by different names, as the _Vine_, the _Union_, the _Band_, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She doesn't know us, she doesn't even talk about the flocks of green doves, as she calls the vine leaves on the wall. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This sausage in a vine leaf is for Monsieur Rigaud. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Every vine and bush seemed but the lurking-place of some huge and horrible beast waiting to bury gleaming fangs into her soft flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Yet Pasteur felt he could learn much of value from the simplest shepherd or vine-dresser. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But you can cut off a vine-branch with a dagger or with a chisel, and in many other ways? Plato. The Republic.
- We had, on our way out, to cross a paved hall, with glass sides and roof, over which a vine was trained. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But a disease killed all the vines fifteen years ago, and since that time no wine has been made. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He took the wood of the fence, the sticks of the vines, and hurried back with them to the furnace. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There were sticks that supported vines, and a fence that ran between his land and the next. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The next morning the farmer came in very excited and reported that the stuff had killed the vines as well. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Still another part of it was a long stretch of low grape-vines, which were tanglesome and troublesome, and which we took to be brambles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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