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- English Word Wearing Definition Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.
- English Word Wearish Definition Weak; withered; shrunk.
- English Word Wearish Definition Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.
- English Word Wearisome Definition Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
- English Word Weary Definition Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
- English Word Weary Definition Causing weariness; tiresome.
- English Word Weary Definition Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
- English Word Weary Definition To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
- English Word Weary Definition To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.
- English Word Weary Definition To harass by anything irksome.
- English Word Weary Definition To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.
- English Word Wearying Definition of Weary
- English Word Weasand Definition The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.
- English Word Weasel Definition Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.
- English Word Weasel-faced Definition Having a thin, sharp face, like a weasel.
- English Word Weaser Definition The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.
- English Word Weasiness Definition Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.
- English Word Weasy Definition Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.
- English Word Weather Definition The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorological phenomena; meteorological condition of the atmosphere; as, warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather, etc.
- English Word Weather Definition Vicissitude of season; meteorological change; alternation of the state of the air.
- English Word Weather Definition Storm; tempest.
- English Word Weather Definition A light rain; a shower.
- English Word Weather Definition To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air.
- English Word Weather Definition Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm.
- English Word Weather Definition To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship.
- English Word Weather Definition To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
- English Word Weather Definition To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather.
- English Word Weather Definition Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc.
- English Word Weather-beaten Definition Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather.
- English Word Weather-bit Definition A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.