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To bind or fasten with withes. You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and baited to death. Bp. Hall.

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.

A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.

Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly. [Obs.] That thou doest, do thou swithe. Wyclif (John xiii. 27).

A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable. [Obs.] Wither.

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.