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Wearing pattens. "Some pattened girl." Jane Austen.

False swearing.

Wearing a phylactery.

Wearing a plaid. Campbell.

A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.

s posies." Spenser. We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies. Swift.

s. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue. 1 Tim. i. 9.

Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.

Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures." Lowell.

Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell.

f an acre, or forty square rods. By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in swearing. "No, by the road, not so." Shak. -- Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church, supporting the road. -- Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which the rood and its appendagess were set up…

Wearing a coarse gown or shaggy garment made of rug. Beau. & Fl.

Wearing sandals. The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet. Longfellow.

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods. Dryden.

A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag. [Spelled also sachel.] The whining schoolboy with his satchel. Shak.

To value; to rate; -- with at. Be you contented, wearing now the garland, To have a son set your decrees at naught. Shak. I do not set my life at a pin's fee. Shak.

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay.

Not having or wearing a shirt. Pope. -- Shirt"less*ness, n.

Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.