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That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes. Burton.

Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.

he frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. Addison.

To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.

performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.

One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced. Richardson.

To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion. God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest. Ex. xxiii. 12.

Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv.

Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak.

Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." Spenser. "There passed a weary time." Coleridge.