Word Meanings - PATTENED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wearing pattens. "Some pattened girl." Jane Austen.

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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.
• WEARABLE
  Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
• WEARILESS
  Incapable of being wearied.
• PATTEN
  1. A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud. The patten now supports each frugal dame. Gay. 2. A stilt. Halliwell.
• 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.
• PATTENED
  Wearing pattens. "Some pattened girl." Jane Austen.
• 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;
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• 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.
• MISWEAR
  To wear ill. Bacon.
• OUTWEAR
  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.
• DOG-WEARY
  Extremely weary. Shak.
• FORSWEAR
  1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden.