(archaic, except in, Scotland, and, dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.
(archaic, except in, Scotland, and, dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.
(rare) Decline, wane.
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(UK, _, dialectal, possibly, obsolete) To wither or fade, or become yellow or jaundiced.
(intransitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland) To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither.
(chiefly, Scotland) Dull, dreary; melancholy.
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Stunted; ill-grown; decayed; in a state of decline.
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.