Word Finder - withers

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To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.

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To cause to shrivel or dry up.

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To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.

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To become helpless due to emotion.

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To make helpless due to emotion.

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To go against, resist; oppose.

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The part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height.

He snatched her belt and slung her across his horse's withers before mounting.

The general shape of the animal is ungainly, owing to a huge hump on the withers, at which point the height is about 3 ft.

As the fruit ripens the spathe withers, and the brilliant red berries are exposed.

The front legs should be long and well muscled with accentuated withers, and the back legs should be powerful and well muscled.

The miniature version is usually between 14 to 17 inches tall at the withers, or the tallest part of the shoulder.

This is when you measure the dog at its withers -- the highest point between the shoulders on a dog standing on all four legs.

Guitarists Mark Knopfler (born in Scotland) and his brother David joined bassist John Illsley and drummer Pick Withers to form Dire Straits, named so because of their almost constant financial situation, in Deptford, England (UK) in 1977.

Its immediate occasion was the disputation at Heidelberg (1568) for the doctorate of theology by George Wither or Withers, an English Puritan (subsequently archdeacon of Colchester), silenced (1565) at Bury St Edmunds by Archbishop Parker.

Withers had proposed a disputation against vestments, which the university would not allow; his thesis affirming the excommunicating power of the presbytery was sustained.

The gaur, which extends into Burma and the Malay Peninsula, where it is known as seladang, is the typical representative of an Indo-Malay group of wild cattle characterized by the presence of a ridge on the withers, the compressed horns, and the white legs.

All these are large and generally more or less uniformly coloured antelopes with horns in both sexes, long and more or less hairy tails, high withers, small face-glands, naked muzzles, tall, narrow upper molars, and the absence of pits in the frontal bones.

On the neck and withers this stripe is formed by the mane.

Among the striped species, or zebras and quaggas of Africa, the large Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi) of Somaliland and Abyssinia stands apart from the rest by the number and narrowness of its stripes, which have an altogether peculiar arrangement on the hind-quarters, the small size of the callosities on the fore-legs, the mane extending on to the withers and enormous rounded ears, thickly haired internally.

The withers may be moderately high and thin; the chest well developed, but not too wide or deep; the shoulder should lie well on the chest, and be oblique and well covered with muscle, so as to reduce concussion in galloping; the upper and lower arms should be long and muscular; the knees broad and strong; legs short, flat and broad; fetlock joints large; pasterns strong and of moderate length; the feet should be moderately large, with the heels open and frogs sound - with no signs of contraction.

And where they pass the grass withers and the stones crack.