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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 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.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

ing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

ess. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.…

rers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.