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Wearish   Listen
adjective
Wearish  adj.  
1.
Weak; withered; shrunk. (Obs.) "A wearish hand." "A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature."
2.
Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. (Obs.) "Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wearish" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Recorders, in some of these, are Iustices of the peace, for their owne limits, and welneere allof them haue large exemptions and iurisdictions. A garment (in diuers mens opinions) ouer-rich and wide, for many of their wearish and ill-disposed bodies. They alleadge for themselues, that speedy iustice is administred in their townes, and that it saueth great expences, incident to assize trials, which poor Artificers cannot vndergoe. But the other answere, that these trials are often poasted on, with more haste then ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew



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