Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WEAP'ON-LESS, a.

Unarmed; having no weapon. – Milton.

WEAP'ON-SALVE, n. [weapon and salve.]

A salve which was supposed to cure the wound, by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] – Boyle.

WEAR, n. [Sax. wær, wer; from the root of werian, to hold, defend, protect; D. waaren or weeren; often written wier. See Warren and Guard.]

1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for conducting it to a mill, or for taking fish.
2. An instrument or kind of basket work for catching fish.

WEAR, n.

1. The act of wearing; diminution by friction; as, the wear and tear of a garment.
2. The thing worn. Wear and tear, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in use.

WEAR, v.i.¹

1. To be wasted; to be diminished by attrition, by use, or by time. Thou wilt surely wear away. Exod. xviii.
2. To be tediously spent. Thus wore out night. – Milton.
3. To be consumed by slow degrees. It is better to wear out, than to rust out. To wear off, to pass away by degrees. The follies of youth wear off with age.

WEAR, v.i.²

In navigation, to wear is to put the ship on the other tack by turning her round, stem toward the wind. – Mar. Dict.

WEAR, v.t. [pret. wore; pp. worn. W. gwariaw, to spend or consume; Sax. weran, werian, to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes.]

1. To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition; to lessen or diminish by time, use or instruments. A current of water often wears a channel in limestone.
2. To carry appendant to the body, as clothes or weapons; as, to wear a coat or a robe; to wear a sword; to wear a crown. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore. – Pope.
3. To have or exhibit an appearance; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
4. To affect by degrees. Trials wear us into a liking of what possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. – Locke. To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish or destroy by gradual attrition or decay. – Dryden. To wear off, to diminish by attrition or slow decay. – South. To wear out, to consume, to render useless by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. #2. To consume tediously; as, to wear out life in idle projects. #3. To harass; to tire. He shall wear out the saints of the Most High. Dan. vii. #4. To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in the service of his country.

WEAR'A-BLE, a.

That can be worn. – Swift.

WEARD, n.

Sax. a warden, in names, denotes watchfulness or rare; but it must not be confounded with ward, in toward.

WEAR'ER, n. [from wear.]

1. One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloke, a sword or a crown.
2. That which wastes or diminishes.

WEA'RI-ED, pp.

Tired; fatigued.

WEA'RI-LY, adv.

In a tired or weary manner.

WEA'RI-NESS, n. [from weary.]

1. The state of being weary or tired; that lassitude or exhaustion of strength which is induced by labor; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppress'd. – Dryden.
2. Lassitude; uneasiness proceeding from continued waiting, disappointed expectation or exhausted patience, or from other cause.

WEAR'ING, n.

Clothes; garments. [Obs.] – Shak.

WEAR'ING, ppr.

1. Bearing on or appendant to the person; diminishing by friction; consuming.
2. adj. Denoting what is worn; as, wearing apparel.

WEAR'ISH, a.

1. Boggy; watery. [Not in use.]
2. Weak; washy. [Not in use.] Carew.

WEA'RI-SOME, a. [from weary.]

Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; as, a wearisome march; wearisome day's work. Wearisome nights are appointed to me. Job vii.

WEA'RI-SOME-LY, adv.

Tediously; so as to cause weariness. – Ralegh.

WEA'RI-SOME-NESS, n.

The quality of exhausting strength or patience; tiresomeness tediousness; as, the wearisomeness of toil, or of waiting long in anxious expectation.

WEA'RY, a. [Sax. werig; allied perhaps to wear.]

1. Having the strength much exhausted by toil or violent exertion; tired; fatigued. [It should be observed however that this word expresses less than tired, particularly when applied to a beast; as, a tired horse. It is followed by of, before the cause of fatigue; as, to be weary of marching; to be weary of reaping; to be weary of study.]
2. Having the patience exhausted, or the mind yielding to discouragement. He was weary of asking for redress.
3. Causing weariness; tiresome; as, a weary way; a weary life. – Spenser. Shak.

WEA'RY, v.t. [from the adjective.]

1. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength of the body; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. The people shall weary themselves for very vanity. – Hab. ii.
2. To make impatient of continuance. I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. – Shak.
3. To harass by any thing irksome; as, to be wearied of waiting for the arrival of the post. To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.

WEA'RY-ING, ppr.

Exhausting the strength of the body fatiguing.

WEA-SAND, or WE'SAND, n. [s as z; Sax. wasend, wæsend; perhaps from the root of wheeze, and Goth. ond, Dan. aande, breath.]

The windpipe or trachea; the canal through which air passes to and from the lungs.

WEA'SEL, or WEE'SEL, n. [s as z; Sax. wesle; Dan. vesel; G. wiesel; D. weezel. I know not the meaning of this name. In G. wiese is a meadow.]

A small animal of the genus Mustela, which lives under the roots of trees, or in other holes, and feeds on small birds, but particularly on mice. A weasel that frequents barns and corn-houses, frees them from rats and mice, and is sometimes deemed a very useful inmate.

WEA'SEL-COOT, n.

The red headed smew or Mergus minutus. – Cyc.