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To tire or worry; -- out. [Obs.] Dryden.

with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying. Dryden.

unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry. Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift.

To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry. "The trouble and pesterment of children." B. Franklin.

To comb; also, to beat; to worry. [Obs. or Local] See Feaze, v.

To harass and perplex; to worry. "Pothers and wearies himself." Locke.

sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student. H. Taylor.

A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. [Colloq.]

To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.

Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion. And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Shak.

Trouble; anxiety; worry. [Colloq. U. S.]

Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.

To worry; to annoy. [Illiterate]