a. [f. TOIL sb.1 + WORN.] Worn by toil; showing marks of toil.

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1751.  Mason, Elfrida, Poems (1774), 122. Mean and pilgrim weeds, All like an ancient, toil-worn traveller.

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1804.  Grahame, Sabbath, 24. The toil-worn horse, set free.

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1843.  Bethune, Sc. Fireside Stor., 124. The toil-worn countenance, and the anxious eye.

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1898.  J. Arch, Story of Life, viii. 183. The farmers looked care-worn and toil-worn.

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