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Wearisome: Definition and part of speech

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Wearisome

  1. a. Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day’s work; a wearisome book.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wearer: Definition and part of speech

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Wearer

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wear: Definition and part of speech

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Wear

  1. v. t. To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel’s bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
  2. n. Same as Weir.
  3. v. t. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
  4. v. t. To use up by carrying or having upon one’s self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
  5. v. t. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
  6. v. t. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
  7. v. t. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
  8. v. i. To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; — hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
  9. v. i. To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
  10. n. The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.