(rare), = WITHER v.2 used in comb. in sense ‘withered,’ as wither-boned, -faced adjs.
1592. Nashe, Strange Newes, Wks. (Grosart), II. 227. The wither-fac’d weather-beaten Mariner.
1821. Milman, Fazio, 9. Like some dry wither-boned anatomy.
1930. Standard Union (Brooklyn), 23 July, 3/4. Zaro Agha—an aged, wither-faced Turk, who claims that his years now total 156.
