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recious. I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl. Shak. And those pearls of dew she wears. Milton.

To throw out words. [Obs.] Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak.

having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.

vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself. Want will perjure The ne'er-touched vestal. Shak.

One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.

False swearing.

Wearing a phylactery.

A tedious and wearisome time. In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. Shak.

To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away. "The roses wither and the lilies pine." Tickell.

A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents. Pitching piece (Carp.), the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported.

Wearing a plaid. Campbell.

To walk on slowly or heavily. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Gray.

To practice or perform with diligence; to work at. Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. Waller.

Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners. Milton. To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary. [Slang] W. H. Russell.

A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

n or upon, and now usually with over."Painfully to pore upon a book." Shak. The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.

portos, portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] Spenser. Camden. By God and by this porthors I you swear. Chaucer.

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.

s posies." Spenser. We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies. Swift.

To harass and perplex; to worry. "Pothers and wearies himself." Locke.