Wear \Wear\, v. i.

1. 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.

2. 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. ``Thus wore out night.'' --Milton.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)