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

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 be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

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

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle. Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled. Shak.

The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age. [Burlesque] On her withered dewlap pour the ale. Shak.

To let droop or sink. [R.] M. Arnold. Like to a withered vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. Shak.

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

Entirely dry; withered. [Obs.] "A tree fordry." Chaucer.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding.

t, in. When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. Gen. xxiv. 64. Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. Tennyson.

Pining; lean; withered. Dryden.

The state or quality of being withered or lean. [R.]

Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.