Wort

Quick meaning: Wort is a noun meaning (specifically, historical) Chiefly in the plural: a plant of the genus Brassica used as a vegetable; a brassica; especially, a cabbage (Brassica oleracea).

Meaning

(specifically, historical) Chiefly in the plural: a plant of the genus Brassica used as a vegetable; a brassica; especially, a cabbage (Brassica oleracea).

More Meanings

1. (by extension, botany) A non-vascular plant growing on land from the division Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts) or Marchantiophyta (liverworts); an anthocerotophyte or marchantiophyte.
2. (brewing, distilling) Also worts: a liquid extracted from mash (ground malt or some other grain soaked in hot water), which is then fermented to make beer, or fermented and distilled to make a malt liquor such as whisky.
3. (archaic or historical) Now chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine.

Example Sentences

Nay then tvvo treyes, an if you grovv ſo nice, / Methegline, VVort, and Malmſey; […]

It is an excellent pleaſure to be able to take pleaſure in vvorts and vvater, in bread and onions; […]

[H]e [a poor person] drinks vvater, and liue's of vvort leaues, pulſe, like a hog, or ſcraps like a dog, […]

Though ne'er ſo mean the Viands be, / They vvell content my Prevv and me. / Or Pea, or Bean, or VVort, or Beet, / VVhat ever comes, content makes ſvveet: […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for wort

Depending on context, synonyms include herb, potherb.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hopped, gelatine, swallow, mug, word, bloodwort.

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