a. Obs. Also 6 venued, vynued, uinewed, 7 vinnewd, vinowed, vinnow’d. [f. VINEW sb. or v. Cf. FINEWED a. and VINNIED a.] Molded, moldy.

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1538.  Elyot, Mucidus, fylthy: vinewed.

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1558.  Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr. (1580), 103. You must take first of the saied paste, that is not mouldie, vinewed or putrified.

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1574.  Newton, Health Mag., 55. Sweete Almonds … decline to moysture, unlesse they be vinewed and restie for then they are drye. Ibid. (1576), Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 179. Such a like hoary downe, or uinewed mouldinesse.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 530. If it be let alone,… [the vine] would proove to be slender, vinewed, leane, and poore.

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1654.  Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. ii. 71. Like a mouldy Cheese, where three parts are blew and vinnow’d.

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1668.  Wilkins, Real Char., 70. Mould, Horiness, Vinnewd.

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  fig.  1602.  [see FINEWED a.].

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  Hence † Vinewedness. Obs. rare.

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1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Situs,… horenesse: mouldinesse: vinewednesse.

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1611.  Cotgr., Chansisseure,… mouldinesse, vinewedresse. Ibid., Moisissure, mouldinesse,… vinowednesse.

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