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- English Word Worsted Definition Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery.
- English Word Worsting Definition of Worst
- English Word Wort Definition A plant of any kind.
- English Word Wort Definition Cabbages.
- English Word Wort Definition An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.
- English Word Worth Definition To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
- English Word Worth Definition Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
- English Word Worth Definition Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
- English Word Worth Definition Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
- English Word Worth Definition Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
- English Word Worth Definition That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
- English Word Worth Definition Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
- English Word Worthful Definition Full of worth; worthy; deserving.
- English Word Worthies Definition of Worthy
- English Word Worthily Definition In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
- English Word Worthiness Definition The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.
- English Word Worthless Definition Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
- English Word worthwhile Definition Worth the time or effort spent.
- English Word Worthy Definition Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
- English Word Worthy Definition Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
- English Word Worthy Definition Of high station; of high social position.
- English Word Worthy Definition A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
- English Word Worthy Definition To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
- English Word Wost Definition 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
- English Word Wot Definition of Weet
- English Word Wot Definition of Wit
- English Word Wot Definition 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.
- English Word Wotest Definition Alt. of Wottest
- English Word Woteth Definition Alt. of Wotteth
- English Word Wottest Definition 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.