[f. WINCE v.1] An act of wincing.

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  1.  A kick. Now dial.

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1612.  Shelton, Quix., I. II. i. (1620), 66. [The Mule] within two or three winces, ouerthrew him to the ground.

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1638.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Bull, Beare & Horse, E 1 b. And as I fell, his hoofe bestow’d a wince, Upon my pate.

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1840.  Thackeray, Cox’s Diary, Jan. Our respectivo patients gave a wince out.

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  2.  An involuntary shrinking movement (see WINCE v.1 2).

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1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. xii. She looked up with a wince.

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1891.  Conan Doyle, White Company, ix. The villein took the cruel blow without wince or cry.

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