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Meaning of WINCOPIPE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Win"co*pipe\, n. (Bot.)
A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it
opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See
{Pimpernel}.
      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.
 
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