Crossword clues for midwinter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Midwinter \Mid"win`ter\, n. [AS. midwinter.]
The middle of winter.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The middle of winter. 2 The winter solstice; about December 21st or 22nd.
WordNet
n. the middle of winter
Wikipedia
Midwinter is a post-apocalyptic first-person action role-playing game with strategy and survival elements for the Atari ST, Amiga and PC. It was designed by Mike Singleton and was released in 1989 by Microplay Software. The game was critically acclaimed and commercially successful enough to get a sequel titled Flames of Freedom in 1991. A remake is currently in development.
Midwinter is the winter solstice.
Midwinter may also refer to:
- Midwinter (surname)
- Midwinter (album), a 2001 album by Terry McDade and the McDades
- Midwinter (novel), a novel by John Buchan
- Midwinter (video game), a 1989 video game designed by Mike Singleton
- Midwinter Pottery, founded 1910 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
- California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894
Midwinter is a 2001 recording by Terry McDade and The McDades released on Free Radio Records. The recording features harpist Terry McDade and his children; violinist Shannon Johnson, bassist Solon McDade and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah McDade.
Midwinter is a 1923 novel by John Buchan, set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when an army of Scottish highlanders advanced into England seeking to place Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart), the grandson of ousted King James II, on the throne.
Midwinter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Billy Midwinter (1851–1890), English and Australian cricketer
- Brian Midwinter, judge in Manitoba, Canada
- Eric Midwinter (born 1932), British educator and writer
Usage examples of "midwinter".
And the horologe told me that it was the twenty-eighth day of midwinter spring in the year 2930.
A seaside resort in midwinter is always a peculiarly depressing place, and La Panne was no exception.
Friar Cockleburr hurried along with the preparations for a Midwinter Mossflower Feast, helped by his assistant, Alder.
Edge ventured the comment, with a gesture at the jardiniere, that he had never before seen roses and lilacs in bloom in midwinter.
Not one of them seemed to be absent--Drury, Midwinter, Cely, Bartholomew, Grevel, Hicks, Marner, Tame, Sylvester, Whittington--representing every stone town from Stroud to Witney, from Fairford on Thames to Stratford on Avon.
This year, autumn would come early, and by midwinter, massive Arctic superstorms would erupt with fury over the continents, depositing more snow in a few days than would once have been seen in five or ten years.
There were no free volatiles on Whirlygig, but the surface temperature at polar midwinter would be cold enough to liquefy methane.
City of Aigai, Midwinter 337 BC They had many names and many uses, but to Aida they were the Whisperers .
Delleray, called Rockhaven, and Dorilys, heir to Aldaran, were formally married by the catenas on midwinter night.
BY MIDWINTER, the last of the war bands had been gathered and the Commot warriors dispatched to Caer Dathyl.
The stars were beginning to fall thickly, as they do at Midwinter when the Goddess is angriest, when She remembers Her own thoughtlessness at the Creation, and flings stars burning across the night in defiance of the great Death.
Every week saw a reduction in the number, until by midwinter the daily issue to a thousand averaged four sacks.
It's a festival time, but the only thing I can think of that is special about the coming one is that the four moons of Darkover will all be visiblewell, not really, since it tends to be even cloudier in winter than in summerat the same time on Midwinter Eve.
Favrielle had spoken truly, the costuming for the Midwinter Masque that year was ornate.
With Adalia to marry at Midwinter and Oranie betrothed, both to husbands they helped to choose, Piers and Ilane of Mindelan wanted time with Kel.