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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.

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

Extremely weary. Shak.

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

Weary of living. Shak.

To weary out. Cowley.

To weary too much; to tire out. Dryden.

To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. [Obs.] Dryden.

ed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor. To weary him with my assiduous cries. Milton.

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

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. He bores me with some trick. Shak. Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. Carlyle.

Weary; mournful. Shak.

Weary; mournful. Shak.

ce result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't Shak.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.

hends; one who has attained to a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. His path is one that eminently craves weary walking. Edmund Gurney.

Extremely. [Obs.] "Deadly weary." Orrery. "So deadly cunning a man." Arbuthnot.

lancholy deep, with head declined. Thomson. And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. Spenser.

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