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Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

(a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. -- Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. -- Feed pipe, a pi…

To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. Nothing so flags the spirits. Echard.

To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust. M. Arnold. All with weary task fordone. Shak.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. [Obs.] Spenser.

er end of a steam engine cylinder, and b to the lower end; c is the steam pipe, and d the exhaust pipe.

easure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation o…

out. (a) To expend all one's strength. Hence: (b) To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out. -- To give over, to cease; to discontinue; to desist. It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits af…

ning sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand. She would not live The running of one glass. Shak.

as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]

A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq. U. S.]

after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain. The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson.

To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyer…

ever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824).

mbling hydrocephalus. Hydrocephaloid affection (Med.), the group of symptoms which follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.

A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment. [R.]