a. Also 6–7 vinie, 7, 9 viney. [f. VINE sb. + -Y.]
1. Of or pertaining to, of the nature of, vines; composed or consisting of vines.
1570. B. Googe, Pop. Kingd., IV. 54. Fast vpon his head a crowne of vinie leaues is wounde.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. xxxiv. 498. Both the nourishment and vinie qualitie of the stocke of the said vine.
1624. Trag. Nero, I. iii., in Bullen, Old Pl. (1882), I. 19. Not Bacchus drawn from Nisa downe with Tigers, Curbing with viny rains their wilful heads.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 143/2. Coloquintida is a Fruit … that grows upon a climbing or viny Plant.
1715. Pope, Iliad, II. 701. Whom strong Tyrinthe’s lofty walls surround, And Epidaure with viny harvests crown’d.
1816. Ann. Reg., Chron., 539. The cranberry is of the low and viny kind.
1848. Bailey, Festus (ed. 3), 213. Who enter are by kindest angels clad … in robes Woven of sunset clouds, while viny wreaths Gemberries bearing form their coronals.
b. fig. Of an embrace: Clinging, close.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, IV. (1605), 395. These unfortunate louers … not forgetting with vinie embracements, to giue any eye a perfect moddell of affection.
2. Abounding in, full of, or covered with vines; bearing or producing vines.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., xv. 109. The Skeld, the goodly Mose, the rich and Viny Rheine, Shall come to meet the Thames.
1633. P. Fletcher, Pisc. Ecl., II. xiii. From thence he furrow’d many a churlish sea, The viny Rhene, and Volgha’s self did passe.
1680. Morden, Geog. Rect., Germany (1685), 115. Wurtzburg,… environed with Meadows, Gardens, and Vinie Downs.
1729. Fenton, Ded. Lady Harley, 104, Wks. (1790), 375. Trophies, atchiev’d on Gallia’s viny plains.
1735. Thomson, Liberty, I. 58. Baiæ’s viny coast; where peaceful seas … ever kiss the shore.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., I. 277. The steepest, but most lovely of pleasure-paths, conducts through viny woods and white villas to [etc.].
1854. F. Tennyson, Days & Hours, 87. Whisper of viny hills, and sands of gold.
3. Comb., as viny-crowned adj.
1819. Wiffen, Aonian Hours, 122. ’Twas too sad For viny-crowned Thalia.
