Wear

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) Same as Weir.

(2): ( v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.

(3): ( v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.

(4): ( 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.

(5): ( v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.

(6): ( n.) The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good.

(7): ( n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.

(8): ( n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.

(9): ( n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, - used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.

(10): ( n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.

(11): ( v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.

(12): ( v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; - hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.

(13): ( v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.

(14): ( v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.

(15): ( v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.

(16): ( n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.

King James Dictionary

Wear, pret. wore pp. worn.

1. To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition to lessen or diminish by time, use or instruments. A current of water often wears a channel in limestone. 2. To carry appendant to the body, as clothes or weapons as, to wear a coat or a robe to wear a sword to wear a crown.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore.

3. To have or exhibit an appearance to bear as, she wears a smile on her countenance. 4. To affect by degrees.

Trials wear us into a liking of what possible, in the first essay, displeased us.

To wear away, to consume to impair, diminish or destroy by gradual attrition or decay.

To wear off, to diminish by attrition or slow decay.

To wear out,

1. To consume to render useless by attrition or decay as, to wear out a coat or a book. 2. To consume tediously as, to wear out life in idle projects. 3. To harass to tire.

He shall wear out the saints of the Most High.  Daniel 7 .

4. To waste the strength of as an old amn worn out in the service of his country.

Wear,

1. To be wasted to be diminished by attrition, by use, or by time.

Thou wilt surely wear away.  Exodus 18 .

2. To be tediously spent.

Thus wore out night.

3. To be consumed by slow degrees. It is better to wear out, than to rust out.

To wear off, to pass away by degrees. The follies of youth wear off with age.

Wear, n.

1. The act of wearing diminution by friction as the wear and tear of a garment. 2. The thing worn.

Wear, n. See Warren and Guard.

1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for conducting it to a mill, or for taking fish. 2. An instrument or kind of basket work for catching fish.