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, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. What compass will you wear your farthingale Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross swore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Pope.

Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton.

That may be wearied.

Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv.

Incapable of being wearied.

In a weary manner.

The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppressed. Dryden. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over. Bacon.

The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer.

Weak; withered; shrunk. [Obs.] "A wearish hand." Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton.

Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak.

strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary. Shak. [I] am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow.

Wearied. [Poetic]

Weary. [Poetic] "I begin to be aweary of thee." Shak.

Extremely weary. Shak.

n oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak.

One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.

To weary extremely; to dispirit. [Obs.] Spenser.

Weary of living. Shak.

To swear falsely. [Obs.] Blount.