n. The cold season of the year.n. A year: now chiefly poetical, with implication of a hard year or of frosty age.n. Figuratively, a period analogous to the winter of the year: a season of inertia or suspended activity, or of cheerlessness, dreariness, or adversity.n. The last portion of corn brought home at the end of harvest; or, the state of affairs when all the grainon a farm is reaped and brought under cover; also, the rural feast held in celebration of the ingathering of the crops.Occurring in, characteristic of, or pertaining to winter; wintry.Specifically, Harelda glacialis, in various parts of the United States. See cut under Harelda.See lime-tree winter moth, above.To spend or pass the winter; take winter quarters: hiemate: hibernate.To overtake with winter; detain during winter.To keep, feed, or manage during the winter: as, delicate plants must be wintered under cover.To retain during a winter.n. The part of the old-style hand printing-press which sustained the carriage.n. An implement made to hang on the front of a grate, for the purpose of keeping warm a tea-kettle or the like.