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

re, and fell on Paul's neck. Acts xx. 37. Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. Mitford. And eyes that wake to weep. Mrs. Hemans. And they wept together in silence. Longfellow.

arling. Come forth, my white spouse. Chaucer. I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. Ford.

ause to lose breath; to exhaust. [R.] 'T would wind-break a mule to vie burdens with her. Ford.

A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

e. [R.] How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. J. S. Harford.

an even now with me; but she's gone. Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford Shak.

se name was Simon, a witch. Wyclif (Acts viii. 9). He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch. Shak.

Having no wood; destitute of wood. Mitford. -- Wood"less*ness, n.

Excessively; extremely. [Obs.] A am woundy cold. Ford.

To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines yield nectar." Milton. [He] makes milch kine yield blood. Shak. The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. Job xxiv. 5.

Containing or affording zinc.