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Warworn.

To refuse. [Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.

t the saints of the Most High." Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service. -- To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.]

Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

That which is worn; clothes; garments. [Obs.] Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.

Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary. Shak. [I] am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow.

Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.

Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.

An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds. In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing. Milton.

A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. Goldsmith.

riding boot for men, the front of which came above the knee; also, a similar shorter boot worn under the trousers.

A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.

A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl. C. Kingsley.

of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.

A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns. Full seemly her wympel ipinched is. Chaucer. For she had laid her mournful stole aside, And widowlike sad wimple thrown away. Spenser. Then Vivian rose, And from…

An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

Worn-out; old; worthless. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh. -- Worm"-eat`en*ness, n. [R.] Dr. John Smith.

ge species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. [Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.]

See Wornil.