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Dwine

Dwine \Dwine\, v. i. [See Dwindle.] To waste away; to pine; to languish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Gower.

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dwine

vb. (lb en archaic except in Scotland and dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.

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Among the overseers there was a Mr Dwining, an Englishman from Manchester, where he had seen better days, having had himself there of his own property, once as large a mill, according to report, as the Cayenneville mill.