vestimenta+arescunt+c

āresco, ĕre, v. n. inch. [areo], to become dry.

Lit.:

dum mea (vestimenta) arescunt,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 17:

fluvius arescat,

Vulg. Job, 14, 11:

arescat aqua de mari,

ib. Isa. 19, 5:

arescente undā,

Tac. A. 13, 57:

quasi faenum, ita arescet,

Vulg. Isa. 51, 12.—Of tears:

cito arescit lacrima, praesertim in alienis malis,

Cic. Part. Or. 17; so id. Inv. 1, 56 fin. —

Trop., to languish.

Of plants, to dry up, wither: nullo modo facilius arbitror posse herbas arescere et interfici, to dry up, Cic. Oecon. ap. Non. p. 450, 1; so Plin. 8, 38, 57, § 137:

truncus (arboris),

Tac. A. 13, 58:

vitis,

Vulg. Ezech. 17, 9; 17, 10:

palmes,

ib. Joan. 15, 6: manus (branch), ib. Job, 15, 32.—

Of persons (eccl. Lat.), to pine away in sickness:

(filius meus) stridet dentibus et arescit,

Vulg. Marc. 9, 17.—So, to sink, be overcome, with fear:

arescentibus hominibus prae timore,

Luc. 21, 26.