Word Meanings - OUTWEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. Milton. 2. To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. "If I the night outwear." Pope.

Related words: (words related to OUTWEAR)

• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• NIGHTLY
  At night; every night.
• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• NIGHTMAN
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• WEAR
  1. The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment. 2. The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. Motley wear. Shak. Wear and tear, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in
• 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.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• WEARABLE
  Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• WEARILESS
  Incapable of being wearied.
• NIGHTLESS
  Having no night.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• 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.
• NIGHTTIME
  The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• ALLNIGHT
  Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• MIDNIGHT SUN
  The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SEVENNIGHT
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• FORTNIGHT
  The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,