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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Bot.)

A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See

There is small red flower in the stubble fields, which country people call the

wincopipe

; which if it opens in the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow.

Bacon.

Noun.

The vulgar name of a little flower, that, when it opens in the morning, bodes a fair day.

wincopipe ‎(plural wincopipes)

(dialect) The pimpernel flower.
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