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o know certainly or without misgiving. Garlands . . . which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear. Shak.

a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

Weariness. [Obs.] Bailey.

The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.

Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry. Flash house, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpa…

uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Shak.

Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.

force of, to make much account of; to regard. Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear. Shak. I force not of such fooleries. Camden.

To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust. M. Arnold. All with weary task fordone. Shak.

The seat or bed of a hare. As in a form sitteth a weary hare. Chaucer.

imp. of Forswear.

p. p. of Forswear.

To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. [Obs.]

s of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.

To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.

To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; - -used literally and figuratively. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.]

To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen…

To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson.

of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. Mrs. Browning.

To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.