† weornev.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To wither.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > have wasting disease [verb (intransitive)] > wither
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a1380 Virg. Antioch 215 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 29 Þe riht hond..Of him weorned and wox al drie [L. aruit].
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v.a1380- to cajole with
- to cake off
- to calculate one's way by the log
- to call a couple home
- to call a mattock a mattock
- to call a person foul
- to call a person home
- to call a person names
- to call a person out of his or her name
- to call a person pisher
- to call a person to his or her feet
- to call a person to his or her legs
- to call a person to stress
- to call a person to the colours
- to call a person unto the law
- to call a person's name
- to call a person's name something specified
- to call a pikestaff a pikestaff
- to call a spade a bloody shovel
- to call a spade a shovel
- to call a spade a spade
- to call a thing one's own
- to call a thing out of its name
- to call absence
- to call after