Winslo-OT", Myron, D.D., LL.D.. an eminent Con- gregational missionary, was born at Wiiliston, Vt., Dec. 11, 1789. He was of the same stock as tlie two govern- ors Winslow of Massachusetts, and the Kenelm Winslow mentioned in the English history of tlie 16th century. At the age of fourteen he entered a store as a clerk, and finally established himself in business in Norwich, Conn. During this period he was converted, and convictions that he ought to preach to the unevangelized nations took hold upon him. Abandoning a profitable business, he entered college and graduated at Middlebury in 1813, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1818. He was ordained as a missionary in Salem, Mass., with Pliny Fisk and others, Nov. 4, 1818, and in the following year embarked at Boston, arriving at Calcutta in five months. He took up his residence in Oodooville, Ceylon, in 1820, where he labored seventeen years, founding a seminary and otherwise consolidating the mission. In 1836 he was transferred to Madras. His biography during his residence in India would be no less than the history of the missions there. He founded the Madras Mission; was general secretary and financial agent of that and other missions; was president of Madras College from 1840, and head of all the native schools; had the care of a native church of several hundred members; super- vised the printing and editing of various educational and religious works in the Tamil language; and was at the time of his death the oldest missionary of the Amer- ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He died at the Cape of Good Hope, on his way to America, Oct. 22, 1864.
Dr. Wiuslow wrote the following: Flistory of Missions (Andover, 1819, 12mo, 432 pp.): — Hints on Missions to India (N. Y. 1856, 8vo) : — A Comprehennice Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Loio Tamil (Madras, 1862, 4to). "This work has received the encomiums of native, English, and American scholars, and ranks second to no other philological achievement of the age. Not merely for the profoinid scholarship displayed in its pages, but for the vast infiuence it exerts in civilizing and Christianizing India, has it called forth the thanks of the religious world. In the preparation and corn-
eight thousand words and definitions. Of these nearly half owe tlieir lexicographic birth and position to the author. Tlie dictionary contains the mythological, astrological, scientific, official, and poetic terms of the Tamil ; names of heroes, gods, authors, etc.. and geo- graphical and historical information, thus forming an encyclopaedia of Tamil learning." Dr. Winslow is said to have devoted more study to the Eastern languages than any other American. He also conducted a con- tinuous correspondence for forty years with the Mis- si.onary Herald, N. Y. Observer, and other publications. Several Sermons and Addresses were published in pamphlet. Dr. Winslow was five times married. Afe- nioirs of two of his wives and one of his children were published. See Cong. Quarterly, 1865, p. 209 ; Appletons' Annual Cyclop. 1864, p. 814; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.
Winstanley, Thomas, D.D., a Church of Eng- land divine, was born in 1749. He studied at Brasenose College, and afterwards became fellow of Hertford. He took his degree of A.JI. in 1774; published an edition of the Poetics of Aristotle; was appointed prineii)al of St. Alban's Hall in 1797; took his degrees of B.D. and D.D. in 1798, and about this time became Laudian pro- fessor of Arabic, Camden professor of ancient historv, and prebendary of St. Paul's. He died in September, 1823. See Chi-istian Rememhrancer, 1823, p. 628.
Winter (prop, "jra, sethdn. Cant, ii, 11 ; but usually f)"in, choreph, which is strictly autumn, the season of ripeness; Gr. i^f(/«ij', the ?-«t«y season). In Palestine, part of autumn and the seasons of seed-time and cold, extending from the beginning of September to the l)e- gimiing of March, were called winter ((Jen. viii. 22 : I'sa. Ixxiv, 17; Zech. xiv, 8; Jer. xxxvi. 22). Tiie cold of winter is not usually very severe, though the north winds from the middle of December to the middle of February are exceedingly penetrating. Snow falls more or less, but seldom lies upon the ground, except in the moun- tains (Psa. cxlvii, 17). In shady places the ice will oc- casionally bear a man's weight, but thaws as'soon as the sun rises upon it. In the plain of Jericho the winter is more genial than the spring of northern countries, while in the mountainous country around Jerusalem it is often more inclement than might be expected (Matt, xxiv, 20). In this season the most furious storms of hail are experienced all over the land ; the brooks rise, and all their streams fill their channels, and thunder and liglit- ning are frequent. Towards the end of January the fields become green, and there is every appearance of approaching spring. The last rains fall in the early part of April; it is still cold, but less so, and the spring may be said to have arrived (Cant, ii, 11), See Cal- endar; Palf.stine; Season.
Winter, Robert, D.D., an English Dissenting min- ister, was born in London in 1762, and was pastor at New Court, Carey Street, from 1806 until his death, in 1833. He published Pastoral Letters on Nonconformity, and several single Sermons. See (Lond.) Gentleman's Magazine, 1833, ii, 277.