Julie K. Rose
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
word-hoard
dwine
: "to pine or waste away slowly, from whence the diminutive,
dwindle
. In Kent, a weakly child is called a
dwine
." (Charles Mackay's
Lost Beauties of the English Language
, 1874, by way of the Forgotten English calendar)
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