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A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]

Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local] Mir. for Mag.

Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews. Cowper. A body made of brass, the crone demands, . . . Tough to the last, and with no toil to tire. Dryden. The basis of his character was caution combined with tough tenacity of purpose. J. A. Symonds.

An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.

he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. Tillotson.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

justice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor. "This false tyrant, this Nero." Chaucer. Love, to a yielding heart, i…

To make ugly. [R.] Richardson.

To recall or retract, as a look. [R.] Richardson.

Not sisterly. Richardson.

To disarm; to soften. Richardson.

To release, as one thing stuck to another. Richardson.

oyed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger. I am so used in the fire to blow. Chaucer. Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels. Milton. To use one's self, to behave. [Obs.] "Pray, forgive me, if I have used myself unmann…

Windy; flatulent. Richardson (Dict.).

heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Milton. The unhappy never want enemies. Richardson.