[f. WINCE v.1 + -ING2.] That winces; † restive (lit. and fig.); recoiling, flinching.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 12. Winsing asse, Kicking colt, and such like nick-names.
1659. Torriano, Cavallinadonna, a skittish, or winzing woman.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club), 234. The Franciscans … were a set of poor whinsing-like bodies.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes, xiv. The scruples of such wincing landlords.
1876. Daily News, 27 Oct., 5/3. Outsiders are sure to conclude that the wincing jade is galled.
1918. Blackw. Mag., Jan., 84/2. He dug his small, sharply spurred boot-heel against the wincing flank of the sweating chestnut mare.
Hence Wincingly adv.
1845. Knickerbocker Mag., XXXII. Sept., 268. He ‘followed instructions,’ but very wincingly, by reason of the gradually-increasing sting.
1883. Miss Broughton, Belinda, I. x. Belinda … shrinks wincingly away.
1891. Meredith, One of our Conq., I. viii. 131. She remembered it … wincingly, insurgently.
