wearing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WEARING, participle present tense 1. Bearing on or appendant to the person; diminishing by friction; consuming. 2. adjective Denoting what is worn; as wearing apparel. WEARING, noun Clothes; garments.
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