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Blight :: Blight (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To cause to wither; to wilt.

Wizen :: Wizen (v. i.) To wither; to dry.

Blast :: Blast (v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom..

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) 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..

Withering :: Withering (a.) Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.

Witherling :: Witherling (n.) A withered person; one who is decrepit.

Withers :: Withers (prep.) The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse..

Sere :: Sere (a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear.

Immortelle :: Immortelle (n.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting..

Blight :: Blight (n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc..

Welew :: Welew (v. t.) To welk, or wither..

Blight :: Blight (n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences..

Frost-bitten :: Frost-bitten (p. a.) Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing..

Dry :: Dry (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

Perish :: Perish (v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away..

Wither :: Wither (n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies..

Sapless :: Sapless (a.) Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.

Sere :: Sere (a.) [OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. ay`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves..

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