[f. WINCE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of WINCE v.1; kicking; flinching or recoiling as from pain.
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 12002. So that no mater off wynsyng Ys ffounde in hym in fflessh nor bon,… Gruchchyng, nor rebellioun, Nor no contradiccioun.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. xx. 129. Thei schulden be aschamed … of her wyncing in witt, and of her hopping bisidis witt.
1530. Palsgr., 75/2. Wynsyng of an horse, regibement.
1598. Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. x. The Asse must be kindly whipped for winsing.
1841. Livingstone, in Blaikie, Life, iii. (1881), 51. They are excellent patients too besides. There is no wincing; everything prescribed is done instanter.
1898. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t., ii. (1859), 32. There is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.
1872. Black, Adv. Phaeton, xxviii. 382. He bade goodbye to both of them without wincing.
Wincing vbl. sb.2: see WINCE v.2
