wear

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To carry or have on one's person as covering, adornment, or protection.
• intransitive verb To carry or have habitually on one's person, especially as an aid.
• intransitive verb To display in one's appearance.
• intransitive verb To bear, carry, or maintain in a particular manner.
• intransitive verb To fly or display (colors). Used of a ship, jockey, or knight.
• intransitive verb To damage, diminish, erode, or consume by long or hard use, attrition, or exposure. Often used with away, down, or off.
• intransitive verb To produce by constant use, attrition, or exposure.
• intransitive verb To bring to a specified condition by long use or attrition.
• intransitive verb To fatigue, weary, or exhaust.
• intransitive verb Nautical To make (a sailing ship) come about with the wind aft.
• intransitive verb To last under continual or hard use.
• intransitive verb To last through the passage of time.
• intransitive verb To break down or diminish through use or attrition.
• intransitive verb To pass gradually or tediously.
• intransitive verb Nautical To come about with stern to windward.
• noun The act of wearing or the state of being worn; use.
• noun Clothing, especially of a particular kind or for a particular use. Often used in combination.
• noun Damage resulting from use or age.
• noun The ability to withstand impairment from use or attrition.
• idiom (pants/trousers) To exercise controlling authority in a household.
• idiom (wear thin) To be weakened or eroded gradually.
• idiom (wear thin) To become less convincing, acceptable, or popular, as through repeated use.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of wearing or using, or the state of being worn or used, as garments, ornaments, etc.; use: as, a garment not for every-day wear.
• noun Stuff or material for articles of wear; material for garments, etc.
• noun An article or articles worn, or intended or fit to be worn; style of dress, adornment, or the like; hence, fashion; vogue.
• noun Use; usage received in course of being worn or used; the impairment or diminution in bulk, value, efficiency, etc., which results from use, friction, time, or the like.
• To carry or bear on the body as a covering or an appendage for warmth, decency, ornament, or other use; put or have on: as, to wear fine clothes; to wear diamonds.
• To use, affect, or be in the habit of using in one's costume or adornment: as, to wear green.
• To consume by frequent or habitual use; deteriorate or waste by wear; use up: as, boots well worn.
• To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition; lessen or diminish by continuous action upon; consume; waste; destroy by degrees.
• Hence To exhaust; weary; fatigue.
• To cause or produce by constant percussion or attrition; form by continual rubbing: as, a constant current of water will wear a channel in stone.
• To efface; obliterate.
• To have or exhibit an appearance of; bear; carry; exhibit; show.
• To disaccustom to one thing and accustom to another; bring gradually; lead: often with in or into before the new thing or state.
• Nautical, to bring (a vessel) on another tack by turning her with her head away from the wind; veer. Also ware.
• To lay out; expend; spend; waste; squander. Compare ware.
• To waste or destroy by degrees; consume tediously: as, to wear out life in idle projects.
• Hence— To obliterate; efface.
• To harass; tire completely; fatigue; exhaust; waste or consume the strength of.
• To be in fashion; be in common or recognized use.
• To become fit or suitable by use; become accustomed.
• To last or hold out in course of use or the lapse of time: generally with well or ill.
• To undergo gradual impairment or diminution through use, attrition, or lapse of time; waste or diminish gradually; become obliterated: often with away, off, or out.