envyned
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French enviner (“to store with wine”), from en- + vin (“wine”). See vine.
Adjective
envyned
- (nonce word) stored or furnished with wine
- p. 1387, Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue:
- A better envyned man was no wher non.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for envyned in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)