What compass will you wear your farthingale? Shak.

On her white breast a sparkling cross s(?)(?) wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Pope.

His innocent gestures wear
A meaning half divine. Keble.

That wicked wight his days doth wear. Spenser.

The waters wear the stones. Job xiv. 19.

Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. Locke.

To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay. -- To wear off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth. -- To wear on or upon, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" Chaucer. -- To wear out. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. "To wear out miserable days." Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High." Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service. -- To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.]

Away, I say; time wears. Shak.

Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee. Ex. xviii. 18.

His stock of money began to wear very low. Sir W. Scott.

The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century. Beaconsfield.

To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age. -- To wear on, to pass on; as, time wears on. G. Eliot. -- To wear weary, to become weary, as by wear, long occupation, tedious employment, etc.

Motley 's the only wear. Shak.

Wear and tear, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in use; the loss or injury to which anything is subjected by use, accident, etc.