Word Meanings - LIVERIED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.

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• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• WEARING
  1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• PARNELLISM
  The policy or principles of the Parnellites.
• LIVERY
  gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
• WEARABLE
  Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
• WEARILESS
  Incapable of being wearied.
• LIVERING
  A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. Chapman.
• LIVERIED
  Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.
• LIVERYMAN
  1. One who wears a livery, as a servant. 2. A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges,
• WEARISH
  1. Weak; withered; shrunk. "A wearish hand." Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton. 2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.
• PARNELLITE
  One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland.
• WEAR
  See WEIR
• WEARER
  1. One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton. 2. That which wastes or diminishes.
• WEARY
  1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary. Shak. am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow. 2. Causing weariness;
• WEARINESS
  The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppressed. Dryden. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft
• WEARIFUL
  Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv.
• WEARISOME
  Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak. Syn. -- Irksome; tiresome; tedious;
• LIVERY STABLE
  . A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 & .
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
• SWEARER
  1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.
• UNWEARIED
  Not wearied; not fatigued or tired; hence, persistent; not tiring or wearying; indefatigable. -- Un*wea"ried*ly, adv. -- Un*wea"ried*ness, n.
• LIFE-WEARY
  Weary of living. Shak.
• OVERWEARY
  To weary too much; to tire out. Dryden.