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To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of. [R.] Drayton.

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. T. Gray.

Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.

the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc. The weary time she can not entertain. Shak.

ons adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to enthusiasm and calculating shrewdness. Bancroft.

Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. [Obs.] Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

One who equivocates. Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Shak.

To exhaust or wear out. [Obs.] "Seeds . . . wearied or exantlated." Boyle.

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

se action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. I wear my trusty sword, When I do exercise. Cowper.

wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley.

malignant design. Milton. This would produce a new face of things in Europe. Addison. We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. Wordsworth.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.

To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.

ppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely Jer. vii. 9.

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

Weariness. [Obs.] W. Montaqu.

Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap. Shak.