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One whose affections and energies are withered. Mummy brown, a brown color, nearly intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian tombs. -- Mummy wheat (Bot.), wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believ…

; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree withered away. Matt. xxi. 19.

cover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

Fig.: Dry, old; husky; withered; spiritless. "A somewhat sapless womanhood." Lowell. Now sapless on the verge of death he stands. Dryden.

An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. The scoff of withered age and beardless youth. Cowper.

Gr. sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. sq. root152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.

Dry; withered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.

Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. [Withered murder] with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.

a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day. Milton.

streamed tears. It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart. Spenser.

Dried up; withered by heat. [Obs.] "My tongue . . . unparched." Crashaw.

Green; not withered. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Weak; withered; shrunk. [Obs.] "A wearish hand." Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton.

Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.

alor grown wild by pride." Prior. "A wild, speculative project." Swift. What are these So withered and so wild in their attire Shak. With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven. Milton. The wild winds howl. Addison. Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the…

To transport by flight; to cause to fly. I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered bough. Shak.

To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. Shak. There was a man which had his hand withered. Matt. xii. 10. Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. Dryden.

A withered person; one who is decrepit. [Obs.] Chapman.

Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. Dickens.

Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.