Now dial. [Alteration of WITHWIND, after WITHY sb.] = WITHWIND.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, III. lii. 391. Of smothe Bindweede, or Withiwinde. The great white Bindeweede or soft withiwinde. Ibid., liii. 393. Of blacke Withiwinde, or Bindeweede.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Campanilla yerva, withie winde, Smilax.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. III. 610. Whiter Galat then the white withy-wind.

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1658.  trans. Porta’s Nat. Magic, III. xix. 105. The seed of withy-winde being planted neer to Basil, [etc.].

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1825.  Jennings, Obs. Dial. W. Eng. Withy-wine, the plant bindweed.

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1829.  [J. L. Knapp], Jrnl. Naturalist, 114. The clematis, the ‘withy-wind’ of our peasantry.

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1878.  Hardy, Ret. Native, I. x. You could twist him to your will like withywind, if you only had the mind.

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