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hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. Shak.

In a worrying manner.

Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.

To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. Motherwell. Ereedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. R. D. Blackmore.

Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares.

ack like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom…

fort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain. Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end. Milton.

State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] Dickens.

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]

To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry. [Obs.] insworth.

To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [Obs.] [Written also feaze, feize, pheese.] Beau. & Fl. To feeze up, to work into a passion. [Obs.]

To frighten; to worry. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]

Worry; harassment. [R.] Byron.

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.

To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. [Obs.] Locke.

To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass. Shak.

To tease; to worry; to torment. [Colloq.]