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Worth   /wərθ/   Listen
noun
Worth  n.  
1.
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. "What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?"
2.
Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth. "To be of worth, and worthy estimation." "As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could know such worth, or worth describe so well." "To think how modest worth neglected lies."
Synonyms: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.


verb
Worth  v. i.  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. "I counsel... to let the cat worthe." "He worth upon (got upon) his steed gray."


adjective
Worth  adj.  
1.
Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. (Obs.) "It was not worth to make it wise."
2.
Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for. "A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats." "All our doings without charity are nothing worth." "If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me."
3.
Deserving of; in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense. "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell." "This is life indeed, life worth preserving."
4.
Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of. "At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns."
Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n.





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... ideas that are worth trying: First, a window box on the shady side of the house. This box must be lined with asbestos paper on the inside, and then covered with the same paper and an additional covering of ...
— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson
... white gardeners, all black gentlemen, like hisself. In the house were twenty forty gentlemen in livery, besides women-servants—never could remember how many women-servants,—dere were so many: tink dere were fifty women-servants—all Madam Esmond's property, and worth ever so many hundred pieces of eight apiece. How much was a piece of eight? Bigger than a guinea, a piece of eight was. Tink, Madam Esmond have twenty thirty thousand guineas a year,—have whole rooms full of gold and plate. Came to England in one of her ships; have ever ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Heaven; Singing, singing down to earth; Unto all some good is given. Unto all there cometh worth; Heart and I, we sing to know That the ...
— Bay State Monthly, Vol. II. No. 5, February, 1885 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various
... and eneration which the Indians have ever retained towards the name and memory of Washington is most interesting evidence of his universally appreciated worth, and the fact that the red men regard him not merely as one of the best, but as the very best man that ever has existed, or that will ever exist, is beautifully illustrated in a singular credence which they maintain even to this day, namely, that Washington, is the only white man who ...
— Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians • Elias Johnson
... us the Reason why the insignificant People above-mentioned are Stirrers up of Laughter among Men of a gross Taste: But as the more understanding Part of Mankind do not find their Risibility affected by such ordinary Objects, it may be worth the while to examine into the several Provocatives of Laughter in Men of superior ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele


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