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Wince   /wɪns/   Listen
verb
Wince  v. i.  (past & past part. winced; pres. part. wincing)  
1.
To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back. "I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word."
2.
To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.


noun
Wince  n.  The act of one who winces.


Wince  n.  (Dyeing & Calico Printing) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
Wince pit, Wince pot, a tank or a pit where cloth in the process of dyeing or manufacture is washed, dipped in a mordant, or the like.





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"Wince" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the horse—he was always a little too hard in the mouth for me," said Godfrey; his pride making him wince under the idea that Bryce guessed the sale to be a matter of necessity. "I was going to see after him—I thought some mischief had happened. I'll go back now," he added, turning the horse's head, and wishing ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot
... shall deem it my duty to surrender it. I shall not call upon the troops to make a useless sacrifice of life, and I will not desert the men who have fought so nobly," Buckner replied, with a bitterness which made Floyd and Pillow wince. ...
— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin
... kick not a little. We could not suppose that these predispositions in the martial steed were at all aggravated by the unskilful jockeyship to which he was subjected, but the sensitive quadruped did rebel a little in the stable, and wince a little in the field! Perhaps the poor animal was something in the state of the horse that carried Mr. Wordsworth's "Idiot Boy," who, in his sage contemplations, "wondered"—"What he had got upon his back!" This rubbing down his horse was a constant source of annoyance to Mr. C., who thought ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... very little. It was not a start, or a wince even—just enough for me to know he felt what ...
— Red Hair • Elinor Glyn
... did not move—did not wince. When Mrs. Halliday, whose mate was exacting, exclaimed, "The greatest apostle of expediency was St. Paul. He preached 'wives, love your husbands,'" he even permitted himself the ghost of a smile. At one point he wished himself familiar with the plot; it was when ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan


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