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WORTHING, a hamlet of England, in Sussex. It was 
originally a poor fishing village, but has now become a fa¬ 
shionable watering place. The modern buildings are on the 
coast, but the village extends towards the Downs in a straight 
line, for about balf-a-mile. Here are two respectable libra¬ 
ries, and commodious warm baths. A fishery is carried on 
here in spring for mackarel, and in autumn for herrings. 
Fair 20th, 21st, and 22d July ; 11 miles from Brighton. Po¬ 
pulation, including Broadwater, 3725.-2. A hamlet of Eng¬ 
land, in Norfolk, near East Dereham. 
WORTHINGBURY, a parish of Wales, in Flintshire; 10 
miles from Chester. Population 511. 
WORTHINGTON, a township of England, in Lancashire, 
near Wigan.—2. A parish in Leicestershire; 4 miles north¬ 
east of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Population 1113. 
WORTHINGTON, a post township of the United States, 
in Hampshire county, Massachusetts ; 100 miles west of Bos¬ 
ton. Population 1391.—2. A post township of Franklin 
county, Ohio, on the Whetstone. It is very pleasantly situ¬ 
ated, and contains an academy and a large woollen manu¬ 
factory. 
WO'RTHLESS, adj. Having no virtues, dignity, or ex¬ 
cellence. 
You, his false hopes, the trust of England’s honour. 
Keep off aloof, with worthless emulation. Shalcspeare. 
Having no value. 
Am I then doom’d to fall 
By a boy’s hand ? and for a worthless woman ? Addison. 
WO'RTHLESSNESS, s. Want of excellence; want of 
dignity ; want of value.—But that mine own worthlessness 
spoils the conceit, I could think our company parallel to the 
seven wise men of Greece. More .—A notable account is 
given us by the apostle of this windy insignificant charity of 
the will, and of the worthlessness of it, not enlivened by 
deeds. South. 
WO'RTHY, adj. Deserving; such as merits; with of 
before the thing deserved. 
Further, I will not flatter you. 
That all I see in you is worthy love. 
Than this: that nothing do I see in you 
That should merit hate. ' Shalcspeare. - 
Valuable; noble; illustrious; having excellence or dig¬ 
nity..—Happier thou may’st be, worthier caust not be. 
Milton .—Having worth; having virtue. 
The doctor is well money’d, and his friends 
Potent at court; he, none but he, shall have her; 
Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her. 
Shalcspeare. 
Not good. A term of ironical commendation. 
My worthy wife our arms mislaid. 
And from beneath my head my sword convey’d ; 
The door unlatch’d; and with repeated calls 
Invites her former lord within my walls. Dry den. 
SuitaWe for any quality good or bad; equal in value; 
equal in dignity. 
My suff’rings for you make your heart my due; 
Be worthy me, as I am worthy you. Dry den. 
Suitable to any thing bad. 
The merciless Macdonald, 
Worthy to be a rebel; for to that 
The multiplying villanies of nature 
Do swarm upon him. Shalcspeare. 
Deserving of ill.—What has he done to Rome that’s wor¬ 
thy death. Shalcspeare. 
WO'RTHY, s. A man laudable for any eminent quality, 
particularly for valour. 
What do these worthies 
But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave 
Peaceable nations. Milton. 
To WO'RTHY, v. a. To render worthy; to aggrandise; 
to exalt. Not used. 
WOT 
He conjunct, trip’d me behind; 
And put upon him such a deal of man. 
That wort hied him; got praises of the king. 
For him attempting, who was self-subdu’d. Shalcspeare. 
WORTHY, Abbots, a hamlet of England, in Southamp- 
tonshire. 
WORTHY, Headbourne, a parish of England, in the 
above county; 2 miles north-by-east of Winchester. 
WORTHY, King’s, another parish in the same county, 
near Winchester. 
WORTHY, Martyr, also a parish in Southamptonshire, 
near Winchester. 
WORTING, a parish of England, in Southamptonshire ; 
near Basingstoke. 
WORTLEY, a hamlet of England, in Gloucestershire; 
near Wootten-under-Edge.—2. A township in the West Rid¬ 
ing of Yorkshire; 3 miles south-west of Leeds. Population 
2336.-3. A township in the same Riding; 5 J miles south- 
south-west of Barnesley. 
WORTON, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Isle- 
worth, Middlesex. 
WORTON, Nether and Oyer, two small parishes of 
England, in Oxfordshire, about 3 miles south-west of Ded- 
dington. 
WORT WELL, a hamlet of England, in Norfolk; 2J miles 
north-east of Harleslon. Population 437. 
WORUMBANG, a village of Western Africa, on the fron¬ 
tier of Manding, towards Jallonkadoo. 
WOSCH1TZ, New and Old, two small towns of Bohe¬ 
mia, with considerable silver mines. New Woschitz has 1200 
inhabitants, and is 43 miles south-south-east of Prague. 
WOSSINGEN, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Baden, with 1300 inhabitants; 10 miles east of Carlsruhe. 
WOSTENHOLM, Cape, a cape in Hudson’s bay. Lat. 
62. 40. N. long. 77. 40. W. 
WOSTITZ, or Wlasatice, a town of Moravia, with 
1100 inhabitants; 17 miles south-by-east of Brunn. 
To WOT, or To Wote, v.n. [pae, from pican, Sax., 
whence weet, to know; of which the preterite was wot, 
knew.] To know; to be aware. Obsolete. 
Wot you, what I found ? 
Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing. Shalcspeare. 
WOTHERSOME, a township of England, in Yorkshire; 
5 miles south of Wethefby. 
WOTHORPE, or Wridthorpe, a hamlet of England, 
in Northamptonshire; 5| miles north-west of Wandsford. 
WOTITZ, or Woticze, a small town in the interior of 
Bohemia, in the circle of Beraun, with 1300 inhabitants. 
WOTTON (Sir Henry), was bom at Boughton-hall, in 
Kent, in 1568, and in 1584 entered of New college, Oxford, 
from which he removed to Queen’s college. During his re¬ 
sidence in the university, he applied with diligence to the 
study of logic and philosophy, of polite literature and civil 
law, and at this time composed a tragedy, which gained the 
applause of his fellow-collegians. Upon the death of his 
father in 1589, he availed himself of the small patrimony 
that was left to him in travelling through France, Italy, Ger¬ 
many, and the Low Countries, in order to improve his ac¬ 
quaintance with men and manners in these several countries. 
On his return in 1596, he was appointed secretary to the earl 
of Essex; and when this nobleman was apprehended on a 
charge of high treason, he consulted his own safety by quit¬ 
ting the kingdom. As he fixed his residence chiefly at Flo¬ 
rence, he employed himself in composing a treatise, which 
was published after his death in 1657, under .the title of 
“ The State of Christendom ; or, a most exact and curious 
Discovery of many secret Passages and hidden Mysteries of 
the Times.” When a plot was detected by the grand-duke 
of Tuscany for taking away the life of James, king of Scot¬ 
land, Wotton was engaged to communicate intelligence of it 
to the king. Having fulfilled this mission, he returned to 
Florence; and when James came to the crown, he recom¬ 
pensed his service by conferring upon him the honour of 
knighthood. In 1604 he was appointed ambassador in ordi¬ 
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