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Our grave, 
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, 
Not worshipp'd with a/waxen epitaph. Shakspeare. 
To honour with amorous respect. 
With bended knees I daily worship her, 
Yet she consumes her own idolater. Carew. 
To WO'RSHIP, v. n. To perform acts of adoration.— 
The people went to worship before the golden calf. 
WO'RSHIPFUL, adj. Claiming respect by any character 
or dignity. 
This is worshipful society. 
And fits the mounting spirit like myself. Shakspeare. 
A term of ironical respect.—Every man would think me 
an hypocrite; and what excites your most worshipful 
thought to think so ? Shakspeare. —Suppose this worship¬ 
ful idol be made, yet still it wants sense and motion. Stil¬ 
ling fleet. 
WO'RSHIPFULLY, adv. Respectfully. 
Hastings will lose his head, ere give consent. 
His master’s son, as worshipfully he terms it, 
Shall lose the royalty of England’s throne. Shakspeare. 
WO'RSHIPPER, s. Adorer; one that worships. 
What art thou, thou idol ceremony ? 
What kind of God art thou that suffer’st more 
Of mortal griefs, than do thy worshippers. Shakspeare. 
WORSLEY, a township of England, in Lancashire; 5J 
miles south-south-east of Great Bolton. Population 6151. 
WORSLEY GREEN, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Great Hallingbury, Essex. 
WORST, adj. [The superlative of bad, formed from 
worse: bad, worse, worst. ] Most bad ; most ill. 
If thou hadst not been born the worst of men. 
Thou hadst been knave and flatterer. Shakspeare, 
WORST, s. The most calamitous or wicked state; the 
utmost height or degree of any thing ill. 
Who is’t can say, I’m at the worst ? 
I’m worse than e’er I was, 
And worse I may be yet: th^ worst is not, 
So long as we can say, this is the worst. Shakspeare. 
To WORST, v. a. To defeat; to overthrow.—She could 
have brought the chariot again, when she saw her brother 
worsted in the duel. Dryden. 
WORSTEAD a town of England, in the county of Nor¬ 
folk. It is remarkable for the first introduction of the manu¬ 
facture of printed woollen yarn or worsted. It was formerly 
a town of considerable trade, but is now reduced to a village; 
and the manufactures, which obtained a name from the place, 
are now removed to Norwich and its vicinity. Worsted-hall, 
the seat of Sir George Bragrave, Bart., is contiguous to the 
village; 4 miles south-south-east of North Walsham, and 120 
north-east-by-nortb of London. Population 619. 
WO’RSTED, s. [from Worstead, a town in Norfolk 
famous for the woollen manufacture. “ A nre seigneur le roi 
monstrant les pouereslistours et overours des drapsde Wurth- 
st.ede en le comte de NorfP.” Rot. Pari. 2. Ed. III.] Wool¬ 
len yarn; wool spun.—A base, proud, shallow, beggarly 
three suited, hundred pound, filthy wor$Z«/-stocking knave. 
Shakspeare. 
WORSTHORNE, a township of England, in Lancashire. 
Population 309. 
WORSTON, a township of England, in Lancashire; 1| 
mile east-north-east of Clitheroe. 
WORT, s. [pypt, peopc, Sax.; worte Dutch.] Origi¬ 
nally a general name for an herb; whence it still continues 
in many, as liverwort, spleenwort. —A plant of the cabbage 
kind. 
Mending of broken ways, carrying of water. 
Planting of worts and onions. Beaum. and FI. 
[pype, Sax.] New beer either unfermented, or in the act 
of fermentation.—If in the wort of beer, while it worketh, 
W OR, 
before it be tunned, the burrage be often changed with fresh, 
it will make a sovereign drink for melancholy. Bacon. 
To WORTH, or Wurth, v. a. To betide; to happen to. 
This word was formerly common in conjunction with woe ; 
as, woe worth thee, i. e. woe be to thee, or woe betide thee; 
an expression still used in several parts of the north of Eng¬ 
land : pa people, or pup<5e, Saxon, from peopban, evenire 
fieri. 
They shall— 
Despise my cruelty, and cry woe worth me! Beaum. and FI. 
Worth, in the termination of the names of places, comes 
from pop's, a court or farm, or popcSig, a street or road. 
Gibson. 
WORTH, s. [peopb, Saxon ; wairths, M. Goth., from 
wairthan ; Saxon, peopSan; to be.] Price; value.—Your 
clemency will take in good worth the offer of these my sim¬ 
ple and mean labours. Hooker. —Excellence; virtue. 
Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth 
That would be woo’d. Milton. 
Importance; valuable quality.—Peradventure those things 
whereupon time was then well spent, have sithence lost their 
dignity and worth. Hooker. 
WORTH, adj. Equal in price to; equal in value to. 
Women will love her that she is a woman. 
More worth than any man: men that she is 
The rarest of all women. Shakspeare. 
Deserving of, either in a good or bad sense. 
Your son and daughter found this trespass worth 
The shame which here it suffers. Shakspeare. 
Equal in possessions to. 
Dang’rous rocks, 
Which touching but my gentle vessel’s side. 
Would scatter all the spices on the stream. 
Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks ; 
And in a word but even now worth this. 
And now worth nothing. Shakspeare. 
WORTH, a township of England, in Cheshire; 5 miles 
south-east of Stockport.—2. A hamlet in Devonshire. 
WORTH, or Worde, a parish of England, in Kent, near 
Sandwich.—2. A parish in Sussex; 8 miles north of Cuck- 
field. 
WORTH, Francis, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Netherby, Dorsetshire. 
WORTH, Matravers, a parish of England, in Dorset¬ 
shire, near Corfe Castle. 
WORTHAM, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 5 miles 
north-west of Eye. 
WORTHEN, a parish of England, in Salop; 12 miles 
west-south-west of Shrewsbury. Population 1989. 
WO'RTHILY, adv. Suitably; not below the rate of.— 
The divine original of our souls hath little influence upon us 
to engage us to walk worthily of our extraction, and to do 
nothing that is base. Bay. —Deservedly; according to merit. 
They are betray’d 
While they pervert pure nature’s healthful rules 
To loathsome sickness worthily, since they 
God’s image did not reverence in themselves. Milton. 
Justly: not without cause. 
The king is present; if’t be known to him 
That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound. 
And worthily, my falsehood. Shakspeare. 
WO'RTHINESS, s. Desert; merit—The prayers which 
our Saviour made were for his own worthiness accepted, ours 
God accepteth not, but with this condition, if they be joined 
with a belief in Christ. Hooker.-— Excellence; dignity; vir¬ 
tue..—He that is at all times good, must hold his virtue to you, 
whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted, rather than 
slack it where there is such abundance. Shakspeare. —State 
of being worthy; quality of deserving.—She is not worthy to 
be loved, that hath not some feeling of her own worthiness. 
WORTHING, 
