n. (Bot.) A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. swī&unr_;e strongly, violently. ] Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That thou doest, do thou swithe. Wyclif (John xiii. 27). [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Withed p. pr. & vb. n. Withing. ] To bind or fasten with withes. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and baited to death. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. withe. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. See Withy, n. ] [ Written also with. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A band consisting of a twig twisted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe. R. H. Dana, Jr. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) A partition between flues in a chimney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Withered p. pr. & vb. n. Withering. ] [ OE. wideren; probably the same word as wederen to weather (see Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather-beaten, Lith. vysti to wither. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? Ezek. xvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin&unr_; away, as animal bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was a man which had his hand withered. Matt. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. “Names that must not wither.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to fade, and become dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth. James i. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture. “Age can not wither her.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shot forth pernicious fire
Among the accursed, that withered all their strength. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny. [ 1913 Webster ]

The passions and the cares that wither life. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Withers + band. ] (Far.) A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]

a. Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ So called after Dr. W. Withering. ] (Min.) Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Wither + -ling. ] A withered person; one who is decrepit. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. wiðernām; wiðer against + nām a seizure, fr. niman to take. ] (Law) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Bot.) A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Properly, the parts which resist the pull or strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. wiðre, fr. wiðer against; akin to G. widerrist withers. See With, prep. ] The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]