a. Also 4, 6–7 wyny, 6 wynie, 6–7 winie. [f. WINE sb.1 + -Y1.]
1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of wine; having the nature or properties (taste, color, etc.) of wine; occas. producing wine; vinous.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 37. The wyny grape.
1570. Levins, Manip., 102/43. Wynie, vinosus.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, VI. iv. 660. Ful of a redde wynie sappe or iuyce.
a. 1586. Sidney, Ps. LXXV. iv. A troubled cupp … Where wine and wyny lees compounded stand.
1586. Bright, Melanch., 159. This waye melancholie carrying a winie and aromaticall spirit,… may procure an harty laughter.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 486. Take Cucumbers … and set them … amongst Muske-Melons, and see whether the Melons will not be more Winy, and better tasted.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxxviii. § 2. 328. It is said that sufficient tartar putt at the roote of a tree, will make the fruite haue a winy tast.
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, I. VI. 92. There are Two Substances … in Wine; the one is Winey, in which the Spirit of the Wine is…; the other is Phlegmatick.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharmacopœia (1719), 1. Middling Ale … that … is of Age just to leave its Malty Taste [and] grow Winey.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIX. 143. A winy vapour melting in a tear.
1817. L. Hunt, On Avon, Poems (1860), 257. The rich orchards in their sunniest robes Are pouting thick with all their winy globes.
1902. R. W. Chambers, Cardigan, ix. I knew the risk…, but the hazard had a winy flavour withal.
1918. Bart Kennedy in Chamb. Jrnl., Sept., 593/1. His winey face took on a still deeper and more winey tinge as the feeling of indignation concerning loafers surged through him.
2. a. Accompanied by the drinking of wine. rare.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. xxvii. (1912), 322. There was no matter their eares had ever heard of that grew not to be a subject of their winie conference.
b. Affected by or due to (excessive) consumption of wine.
1594. Nashe, Terrors of Night, To Rdr. If their winy wits must needs be working.
1840. Lady C. Bury, Hist. Flirt, III. 99. Can’t your repel a man who is perhaps a little winey without all this commotion?
1852. R. S. Surtees, Sponge’s Sp. Tour, xlvi. Ere he thought he had got rid of as much of his winy headache as fitful sleep would carry off.
1873. Leland, Egypt. Sketch-Bk., 61. When the old gentlemen were comfortably fed and amiably winey.
