Wine'o-pipe, n.

n. A little red flower, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day.

There is a small red flower in the stubble-fields which country people call the wineopipe, which if it opens in the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow. Bacon.

☞ This is probably the Anagallis arvensis, or pimpernel, a little trailing plant with scarlet flowers, often called the poor man's barometer, and which opens its flowers regularly in the morning, and closes them toward night, except when there is much moisture in the atmosphere, in which case the flowers remain shut.