Without visible mark or sign she was elf-shot; and the proof of this appeared from her going off her milk, dwining away, and dying before her calves could be counted on the hooves of one foot.
Source: wiktionary
Dwine
//dwaɪn//
Synonyms for "dwine" (2 found)
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Old Mrs. Jennery, of Springholm, never had a daughter of her own, neither had her son, the father of the twin lads whom he left to his mother's care when he died of the dwine, as the country-folk called it.
Source: wiktionary
They stopped only when they came to the first deep pools gleaming with oily reflections in the dwine of the daylight.
Source: wiktionary
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