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Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] Spenser.

Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.

Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

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

To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure. Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. Bacon.

or worn out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service." De Quincey. -- To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist. -- To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice o…

astened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance. Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead. Pope.

Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. Dryden.

teadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. The levity that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in possession. Burke.

To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.

A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

ake fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind. Chaucer. Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Cor. xvi. 18. And labor shall refresh itself with hope. Sha…

ct ears and the hair of the body and tail very long. It is distinguished for endurance of fatigue when used for the purpose of draught. -- Siberian pea tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Cragana arborescens) with yellow flowers. It is a native of Siberia.

a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.

ious time. -- To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.

n extra allowance of spirits on occasion of special exposure to wet or cold, or to severe fatigue; hence, to take a dram.

To harass; to fatigue. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local] Mir. for Mag.

A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff. After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church. Blackwood's Mag.