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A wapenshaw (q. v.). "Already on dark Ruberslaw The Douglas holds his weapon-schaw." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , iv. 25. *weapon-smith, s. One who makes weapons of IMG:content-0743.png:[blocks in formation] "In self-defense, with a warrior's brow, He stood, nor weaponle was now." Words worth: White Doe, v. weap'-on-rỹ, subst . [English weapon , s; -ry.] Weapons in general. wear (1), *weare, *weren (pa. t. * ware , * wered , wore, pa. par. worn ), v . t . & i . [A. S. werian (pa.t. werode); cogn, with Icel. verja to wear; O. H. Ger. werian ; Goth. wasjan =to clothe. From the same root comes vest .] A. Transitive : 1. To carry covering the body, as clothes; to be dre ed in. "Men wearing the same tartan, and attached to the same lord, were arrayed against each other." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiii. 2. To carry appendant to the body, as ornaments, a sword, . "This jewel; Accept, and wear it, kind my lord." Shakesp.: Timon , i. 2. *3. To carry, to bear. "Where the wasp doth wear his sting." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, ii. 4. To allow to grow in a particular fashion. "If any of the Chinese is found wearing long hair in China, he forfeits his head." - Dampier: Voyages (an. 1687). 5. To consume by frequent or habitual use; to deteriorate, waste away, or use up, as clothes. 6. To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition; to le en or consume by constant action upon; to destroy by degrees; to waste away. "When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida, iii. 2. *7. Hence, to weary, to exhaust, to fatigue. "To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs." Shakesp.: All's Well, v. 1. *8. To efface from the memory; to forget. "This few days' wonder will be quickly worn." Shakesp. Henry VI., Pt . II . , ii. 4. 4475 9. To cause or produce by constant percu ion or attrition; to form by continual attrition; as, A constant current of water will wear a channel in stone. 10. To have or present an appearance of; to bear, to carry, to exhibit. "He wears the rose of youth upon him." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 13. 11. To bring about gradually; to affect by degrees; hence, to cause to think or act in a certain direction, way, or line. (Often with in or into .) "Trials wear us into a liking of what, po ibly, in the first e ay displeased us."- Locke . *12. To consume, pa , or spend tediously. (Followed by away . ) "What masks, what dances, To wear away this long age of three hours." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1. B. Intransitive: 1. To be undergoing gradual impairment or diminution; to waste gradually; to diminish or pa away by attrition, use, or time. "Though marble wear with raining." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 560. 2. To pa away, as time; often with an idea of tediousne . (Followed by away , off , out , .) "The day wears away ."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , ii. *3. To he worn appendant to the body; to be the fashion. "Like the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now."-Shakesp.: All's Well , i. 1. *4. To become fit by wearing, as a garment. "So wears she, to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , ii. 4. 5. To last in wearing; as, This cloth will not 6. To move or advance slowly; to make gradual wear. IMG:content-0744.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Transitive : (a) To render usele by wearing; to wear till usele . (b) To waste, destroy, or consume by degrees. " Wear out thy youth with shapele idlene ." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen, i. 1. (c) To hara , to exhaust. "He shall wear out the saints." - Daniel vii. 25. (d) To waste or consume the strength of. "This very rev'rent lecher, quite worn out With rheumatisms, and crippled with his gout." J. Dryden, ju 1.: Juvenal , xiv. 76. (2) In trans.: To become usele from wear. "They showed him all manner of furniture which their Lord had provided for pilgrims, as sword, shield, helmet, breastplate, all-prayer, and shoes that would not wear out." Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. 4. To wear the breeches: To be the master. (Said of a husband or wife.) "You must not look to be my Mr. Sir, Nor talk i' the house as though you wore the breeches, No, nor command in anything. Beaum. & Flet.: Rule a Wife and have a Wife , ii. 5. To wear the collar : Politics: To be subject to the dictation of a political leader or bo . 6. To wear well (or ill ): (1) To be wasted away or worn out slowly (or quickly); to last a long (or short) time in use; to be affected by time or use with difficulty (or ease). (2) To look well (or ill) for one's years. ( Colloq .) weär (2), verb t. & i. [The same word as VEER (q. v.).] Nautical : A. Trans.: To bring on the other tack by turning the ve el round stern to the wind, "We were obliged in the afternoon to wear ship." _ Anson: Voyages , bk. i., ch. viii. B. In trans.: To come round on the other tack. weär (3), v . t. [A. S. werian, cogn. with Icel. verja ; Dan. værge ; Goth. warjan .] 1. To guard, to watch, to defend. 2. To ward off; to prevent from approaching or entering; as, to wear a wolf from sheep.