Obs. [f. WITHER v.2 + -LING1.] A withered branch; a shrivelled or stunted person.

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1528.  More, Dyaloge, II. Wks. 186/1. All these braunches of heritikes … seme thei neuer so freshe & grene, bee yet in dede but witherlinges yt wyther, & shal drye vp.

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a. 1624.  Chapman, Crown of Homer’s Wks., 30. No forspoke Dwarfe, nor downeward witherling.

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