Available Definitions:
1) - imp. of Wear.
2) - imp. of Ware.
3) v. t. - To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
4) v. t. - To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
5) v. t. - To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
6) v. t. - To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
7) v. t. - To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
8) v. t. - To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
9) v. i. - To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
10) v. i. - To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
11) n. - The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
12) n. - The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
13) n. - A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
14) n. - A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
15) n. - A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.