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WEA'RINESS, s. Lassitude; state of being spent with 
labour. 
Come, our stomachs 
Will make what’s homely savoury; weariness 
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard. Shakspeare. 
Fatigue; cause of lassitude.—The more remained out of 
the weariness and fatigue of their late marches. Clarendon. 
—Impatience of any thing. Tediousness. 
WEA'RING, 5 . Clothes. 
It was his bidding ; 
Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu. Shakspeare. 
WEA'RISH, adj. [I believe from paep, Saxon, a quag¬ 
mire^ Boggy ; watery. Weak; washy.—Democrates was 
a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Bur¬ 
ton. 
WEA'RISOME. adj. Troublesome; tedious; causing 
weariness. 
These high wild hills, and rough uneven ways, 
Draw out our miles, and make them wearisome. 
Shakspeare. 
WEA'RISOMELY, adv. Tediously; so as to cause 
weariness.—As of Nimrod, so are the opinions of writers 
different touching Assur, and the beginning of that great state 
of Assyria; a controversy wearisomely disputed, without 
any direct proof or certainty. Ralegh. 
WEA'RISOMENESS, s. The quality of tiring. The 
state of being easily tired.—A wit, quick without lightness, 
sharp without brittleness, desirous of good things without 
newfangleness, diligent in painful things without wcarisorne- 
'ness. Ascham. 
WEARMOUTH PANS, a township of England, county 
of Durham, in the parish of Bishop’s Wearmouth. Popu¬ 
lation 476. 
WEARMOUTH, Bishop’s, a village of England in the 
county of Durham. It is a place of remote antiquity, and 
was formerly of considerable note. It is now so intimately 
united with Sunderland, by new buildings, that they may be 
said to form but one town. The more ancient part of the 
village occupies the southern slope of an eminence south of 
the river Wear, and about a mile and a half distant from its 
junction with the sea. The church is a very ancient structure, 
supposed to have been founded very soon after the restitution 
made by Athelstan. Near the church is an hospital and alms¬ 
house, erected in 1727; and also another alms-house, built 
and endowed by the reverend Dr. Bowes, in the year 1725. 
The latter building stands at the end of a square called Wear¬ 
mouth Green, which, before the division of the parishes, was 
used as a market-place; but the market has since been re¬ 
moved to the High-street in Sunderland. On the bishop’s 
Wearmouth side is the famous iron bridge, of one arch, 
which has been thrown over the Wear, and connects with 
the new road leading to Newcastle and Shields. Population, 
7060. 
WEARMOUTH, Monk, a village and parish of England, 
in the county of Durham, situated on the river Wear, and 
divided by it from Bishop’s Wearmouth, with which it is 
connected by the celebrated iron bridge. It is a place of 
great antiquity, and derives its name from an extensive 
monastery which stood here, until it was removed to Dur¬ 
ham, in the year 1083 ; 1 mile from Sunderland. Popu¬ 
lation 6504. 
WEARNE, a hamlet of England, in Somersetshire; 1 
mile north of Langport. 
WEA'RY, adj. [pepij, Saxon; waeren, to he tired, 
Dutch.] Subdued by fatigue; tirecl with labour. 
Fair Phoebus gan decline in haste. 
His weary waggon to the western vale. Spenser. 
Impatient of the continuance of any thing painful or irk¬ 
some.—The king was as weary of Scotland as he had been 
impatient to go thither, finding all things proposed to him 
without consideration of his honour or interest. Clarendon. 
—Desirous to discontinue. 
See the revolution of the times. 
Make mountains level, and the continent. 
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself 
Into the seas. Shakspeare. 
Causing weariness; tiresome. 
Their gates to all were open evermore 
That by the weary way were travelling. 
And one sat waiting ever them before 
To call in comers by that needy were and poor. Spenser. 
To WEA'RY, v. a. To tire; to fatigue; to harass ; to 
subdue by labour. 
Better that the enemy seek us; 
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. 
Doing himself offence. Shakspeare. 
To make impatient of continuance.—Should the govern¬ 
ment be wearied out of its present patience, what is to be ex¬ 
pected by such turbulent men? Addison. —To subdue or 
harass by any thing irksome. 
Mustering all her wiles. 
With blandish’d parleys, feminine assaults. 
Tongue-batteries; she surceas’d not day nor night 
To storm me over-watch’d and weary'd out. Milton. 
WEARY BAY, a bay on the north-east coast of New 
Holland, south of Endeavour river. 
WEA'SAND. See Wesand. 
WEA'SEL, s. [pepel, Saxon; wesel, Dutch; mustela, 
Latin.] A small animal. See Mustela Vulgaris. 
A weasel once made shift to slink 
In at a corn-loft, through a chink. Pope. 
WEATHER, s. [pebeji, Saxon.] State of the air re¬ 
specting either cold or heat, wet or dryness.—Who’s there, 
besides foul weather ? — One minded like the weather, most 
unquietly. Shakspeare. —The change of the state of the air. 
—It is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle not in decay; 
how much more to behold an ancient family, which have 
stood against the waves and weathers of time! Bacon. — 
Tempest; storm. 
What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud. 
My thoughts presage. Dryden. 
To WEATHER, v.a. To expose to the air. 
He perch’d on some branch thereby. 
To weather him, and his moist wings to dry. Spenser. 
To pass with difficulty. 
He weather’d fell Charybdis; but ere long, 
The skies were darken’d, and the tempests strong. Garth. 
To Weather a point. To gain a point against the wind; 
to accomplish against opposition.—We have been tugging a 
great while against the stream, and have almost weathered 
our point; a stretch or two more will do the work. Addi¬ 
son. 
To Weather out. To endure. 
When we have pass’d these gloomy hours, 
And weather'd out the storm that beats upon us. Addison. 
WEATHERBEATEN, adj. Harassed and seasoned 
by hard weather —They perceived an aged man and a 
young, both poorly arrayed, extremely weatherbeaten ; the 
old man blind, the young man leading him. Sidney. 
WEATHERBOARD, or Weatherbow, s. In the sea 
language, that side of the ship that is to the windward. 
Diet. 
WEATHERCOCK, s. An artificial cock set on the top 
of a spire, which, by turning; shews the point from which 
the wind blows.—A kingfisher hanged by the bill, convert¬ 
ing the breast to that point of the horizon from whence the 
wind doth blow, is a very strange introducing of natural 
weathercocks. Brown. —Any thing fickle and inconstant.— 
Where had you this pretty weathercock ? — I cannot tell 
what his name is my husband had him of. Shakspeare. 
WEATHERDIIIVEN, part. Forced by storms or con¬ 
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