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See Withe.

With this; with that. [Obs.] He will scarce be pleased withal. Shak.

A variety of epidote, of a reddish color, found in Scotland.

what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawal. W. Belsham.

A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.

hrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek. xvii. 9.

Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.

A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.

Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.

Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.

A withered person; one who is decrepit. [Obs.] Chapman.

e been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replev…

of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak.

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser.