wear vb. (freq. used where ‘bear’ would now be idiomatic; Ado V. i. 82 “Win me and wear me,” a common Eliz. proverb; see also WORN)
1.
to weary, ‘wear
out’
AYL. II. iv. 38
“Wearing thy
hearer”
(Ff2-4
“Wearying”),
All'sW. V. i. 4
“To wear your gentle
limbs in my affairs.”
2.
to be worn, be
fashionable
All'sW. I. i. 174
“the brooch and the
toothpick, which wear not now.”
3.
to grow “to”
Tw.N. II. iv. 30
“so wears she to
him.”
