With'ers, n. pl.

n. pl. [Ger. widerrist, from wider, against, and rist, an elevation, elevated part, the withers of a horse, from the root of rise, q. v.] The ridge between the shoulder-bones of a horse, at the bottom of the neck. [See Illust. of Horse.] Let the galled jade wince; Our withers are unwrung. Shak.