Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WITH'ER, v.i. [W. gwiz, dried, withered; gwizoni, to wither; Sax. gewitherod, withered; Ir. fothadh.]

1. To fade; to lose its native freshness; to become sapless; to dry. It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring. Ezek. xvii.
2. To waste; to pine away; as, animal bodies; as, a withered hand. Matth. xii.
3. To lose or want animal moisture. Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. – Dryden.