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h a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer.

from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

Wearing away; superficial waste. Tyndall.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

Wearing rich caparisons. Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow.

Wearing, or protected by, bases. [Obs.] "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall.

Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat. "His beavered brow." Pope.

ue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence,…

A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet. [Poetic] Shak.

Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

Wearing a bonnet. "Bonneted and shawled." Howitt.

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. - Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry. -- Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.

Wearing a busk. Pollok.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. Johnson.