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Webster 1913 Edition
Wearish
Wear′ish
,Adj.
[Etymol. uncertain, but perhaps akin to
weary
.] 1.
Weak; withered; shrunk.
[Obs.]
“A wearish hand.” Ford.
A little,
wearish
old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton.
2.
Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.
[Obs.]
Wearish
as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wearish
WEARISH
,Adj.
1.
Boggy; watery. [Not in use.]2.
Weak; washy. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
wearish
wearish
English
Adjective
wearish (comparative more wearish, superlative most wearish)
- (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
- (obsolete or dialectal) Sickly, wizened, feeble.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:
- Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books, 2001, p.16:
- Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5: