Definition of wear

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Wear (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..

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Indefatigableness :: Indefatigableness (n.) Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency.
Rest :: Rest (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole..
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it..
Dejerate :: Dejerate (v. i.) To swear solemnly; to take an oath.
Charm :: Charm (n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
Hackney :: Hackney (v. t.) To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation..
Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
Franciscan :: Franciscan (n.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit..
Steepled :: Steeple-crowned (a.) Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown..
Frote :: Frote (v. t.) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
Masked :: Masked (a.) Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; cincealed; hidden.
Prolix :: Prolix (a.) Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.
Wear :: Wear (n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
Marry :: Marry (interj.) Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
Turbaned :: Turbaned (a.) Wearing a turban.
Praetexta :: Praetexta (n.) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests..
Weared :: Weared (imp. & p. p.) of Wea.
Wearing :: Wearing (n.) The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
Beat :: Beat (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
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