| 1. town in Missouri (USA); county in Georgia (USA); village in Illinois (USA). price; value; importance. eligible; advantageous; valued at -; having a value of -; worthwhile to -; suited for -; whose assets are valued at -. worthworth , v. i. [oe. worthen, wur?en, to become, as. weor?an; akin to os. wer?an, d. worden, g. werden, ohg. werdan, icel. ver?a, sw. varda, goth. wa?rpan, l. vertere to turn, skr. vr.t, v. i., to turn, to roll, to become. ?143. cf. verse, -ward, weird.] 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.worth worth, n. [oe. worth, wur?, as. weor?, wur?; weor?, wur?, adj. see: worth, a.] |