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The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.

Excessive fatigue.

s willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume.

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.] Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed. Dickens.

To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse. Sir W. Scott.

Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton.

An act or occasion of debauchery. Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. Cowley.

To weary or tire out; to fatigue. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Weariness; fatigue. [R.] Bacon.

Fatigue. Able to continue without delassation. Ray.

The act or state of desisting; cessation. [R.] Boyle. If fatigue of body or brain were in every case followed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

ase of body. Usefulness comes by labor, wit by ease. Herbert. Give yourself ease from the fatigue of watching. Swift.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.

r measuring and recording the work done by a single muscle or set of muscles, the rate of fatigue, etc. -- Er`go*graph"ic (#), a.

Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

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

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…