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To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny. The passions and the cares that wither life. Bryant.

n who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witing perished in the forming. Pope. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.

Containing many words; full of words. We need not lavish hours in wordy periods. Philips.

iginally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use. That no w…

The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lu…

Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree. While the fears of the people were young. De Foe.

In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life. [Obs.] Shak.

The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned…

The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. Cheyne.

rit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.