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Perishable; frail; transitory. [Obs.] Hickes. The caduke pleasures of his world. Bp. Fisher.

I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. Shak. Master, carest thou not that we perish Mark. iv. 38. To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of.

(a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. -- To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject o…

That which may decay and perish; the human body. [Archaic] 1 Cor. xv. 53.

r part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish. If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot. The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.

To decay and perish through excessive moisture.

Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

bs.] Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx. 18.

To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21.

thing is deposited; a depositary. I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. Junius.

otal and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. T…

have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. Madison. Disease germ. See under Germ.

f; to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so dur…

In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.

To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. Job viii. 15.

A being; esp., a purely spiritual being. As far as gods and heavenly essences Can perish. Milton. He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . he had and ideal world of his own around him. W. Irving.