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Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

ing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

ess. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.…

rers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.

A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.

Bound; measure. [Obs.] The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess. Shak.

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

To make to dry up or wither. [Obs.] If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee. Shak.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle. Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled. Shak.

A withe for fastening a gate.

Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.] Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shak. Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. -- General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. -- Particular customs, those which are limited to…

The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age. [Burlesque] On her withered dewlap pour the ale. Shak.

To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.

To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. I Kings xiii. 4.

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. The earth mourneth and fadeth away. Is. xxiv. 4.

Entirely dry; withered. [Obs.] "A tree fordry." Chaucer.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.