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Wasting; consuming. "The pining malady of France." Shak.

In a pining manner; droopingly. Poe.

Opinion. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

With repening or murmuring.

ious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Cæsar. Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. Ray. No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. Milton. Envy, to which the igno…

Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. -- Home"sick`ness, n.

he joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. [He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden.

Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.

ing of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence. Milton. Marasmus senilis Etym: [L.], progressive atrophy of the aged.

Pining; lean; withered. Dryden.

Pining; sickly; peakish. [Colloq.]

Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden.

Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.

Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining. -- Re*gret"ful*ly, adv.

To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind Pope.

Hungry; lean; pining with want.