Lan"guish , n. See Languishment. [Obs. or Poetic]
What, of death, too,
That rids our dogs of languish
?
Shak. And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.
Pope.
Lan"guish (?), v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.]
Shak. Dryden.
Lan"guish (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Languished (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Languishing.]
[OE.
languishen, languissen, F. languir,
L. languere; cf. Gr. &?; to
slacken, &?; slack, Icel.
lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag,
lax, and perh. to E. slack. See -ish.] 1. To
become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to
wither or fade.
We .
. . do languish of such diseases.
2
Esdras viii. 31. Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
Pope. For the fields of Heshbon languish.
Is. xvi. 8. 2. To assume an
expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.
Syn. -- To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.
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