Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wearish"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wearish \Wear"ish\, a. [Etymol. uncertain, but perhaps akin to
weary.]
1. Weak; withered; shrunk. [Obs.] ``A wearish hand.'' --Ford.

A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by
nature. --Burton.

2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. [Obs.]

Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted.
--Palsgrave.


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