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it has grown long enough `to go a third time round it Antichrist will appear. (German superstition.) (See Barbarossa .)

Wyn-monath [Wine-month ]. The Anglo-Saxon name for October, the month for treading the wine-vats. In Domesday Book the vineyards are perpetually mentioned.

Wynd Every man for his own hand, as Henry Wynd fought. Every man for himself; every man seeks his own advantage. When the feud between Clan Chattan and Clan Kay was decided by deadly combat on the North Inch of Perth, one of the men of Clan Chattan deserted, and Henry Wynd, a bandy-legged smith, volunteered for half-a-crown to supply his place. After killing one man he relaxed in his efforts, and on being asked why, replied, “I have done enough for half-a-crown.” He was promised wages according to his deserts, and fought bravely. After the battle he was asked what he fought for, and gave for answer that he fought “for his own hand;” whence the proverb. (Sir Walter Scott: Tales of a Grandfather, xvii.)

Wyoming (3 syl.). In 1778 a force of British provincials and Indians, led by Colonel Butler, drove the settlers out of the valley, and Queen Esther tomahawked fourteen of the fugitives with her own hand, in revenge for her son's death. Campbell has founded his Gertrude of Wyoming on this disaster, but erroneously makes Brandt leader of the expedition, and calls the place Wyoming.

“Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming.”