Children should not know any wickedness. call, heroic, and which are commonly the effects Old folks have discretion, and know the world. of interest, pride, and worldly honour. Dryden, Shakspeure. Compare the happiness of men and beasts no What, start at this! when sixty years have farther than it results from woridly advantages. spread Atterburg. Their grey experience o'cr thy hoary head? As to warldly affairs, which my friends thought Is this the all observing age could gain? 60 heavy upori me, they are most of them of our Or hast thou known the world so long in vain ? own making, and full away as soon as we know Druilen. ourselves. L79. If knowledge of the world makes man perti- 2. Bent upon this world ; not attentive to dious, a future state. May Juba ever live in ignorance. Addison. They 'll pracuise how to live secure, The girl might pass, if we could get her Worldly or dissolute, on that their lords To know the rer!d a little better; Shall leave them to cnjoy. Miltex. To know the torld! a modern phrase For visits, ombre, balls, and play s. Szeift. 3. Human ; common; belonging to the world. 13. Every thing that the world contains. Had I now a thousand uvrlds, I would give Many years it hath continued, standing by no them all for one year more, that I might present other coldly mean but that one only hand which Hyster. to God one year of such devotion and good works, as I never bciore so much as intended. Times and places are approved witnesses of Law. uporldly actions. Roleigt. 14. A large tract of country; a wide com WO'RLDLY. odv. (from world.) With relation to the present life. pass of things. "Tis I who love's Columbus am, 'tis I It is a token of a worldly wise man, not to That must new worlds in it descry. Cowley. contend in vain against the nature of times wherein he liveth. Raleigh. 15. A collection of wonders ; a wonder. Subverting worldly strong and warldly wise Obsolete. By simply meek. Miltex. The bassa having recommended Barbarussa, This cannot be done, if my will be worldly or it was a world to see, how the court was changed voluptuously disposed. South upon him. Knolles. Since your mind is verldly bent, 16. Time. A sense originally Saxon ; now Therefore of the two gitts in my dispose, only used in World without end. Think ere you speak, I grant you leave to 17. In the world. In possibility, choose. Drydea. All the precautions in the world were taken WORM. n. s. (rýrm, Sax. worm, Duích for the marriage of his younger brother. Addis. vermis, Latin.) 18. For all the world. Exactly. A ludi. 1. A small harmless serpent that lives in crous sense, now little used. the earth. He had a pair of horns like a bull, his feet Both the princes cloven, as many eyes upon his body as my grey Thy broken faith hath made a prey to traES. mare hath dapples, and for all the world so plac Sbakspeare Sidney. Help me into some house, WorldLINESS. n. s. (from worldly. Or I shall faint! A plague o' both your houses! Covetousness; addictedness to gain. They have made worms meat of me. Sbakspeare. WoʻRLDLING. n.s. [from world.] A. Though worms devour me, though I turn to mold, mortal set upon profit. Yet in my hesh I shall his face behold; Base minded wretches! are your thoughts so I from my marble monument shall rise deeply bemired in the trade of ordinary world Agaiu intire, and see him with these eyes. lings, as for respect of gain to let so much time Sana'ys, pass. Sidney. At once came forth whatever creeps the The one sort are named the brethren, the ground, Godly; the other worldlings, time-servers, and Insect or worm. pleasers of men more than pleasers of God. 2. A poisonous serpent. The mortal worm. Sbakspeare Great Mammon! greatest god below the sky. s. Animal bred in the body. Spenser. Physicians observe these storms engendered For his weeping in the needless stream; within the body of inan. Harg. Poor dear, quoth he, thou mak'st a testament 4. The animal that spins silk; silk worin. As woridlings do, giving thy sum of more Thou owest the warm no silk, the sheep no' To that which had too much. Sbakspeare. wool. Sbakspeare That other on his friends his thougKts bestows; 5. Grubs that gnaw wood and furniture. The covetous worldling, in his anxious mind, "Tis no awkward claim, Thinks only on the wealth he left behind. Dryd. Pick's from the worn-holes of long-vanish'd If we consider the espectations of futurity, the dars, Trorldling gives up the argument. Rogers. Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd. Sbaespa WOʻRLDLY. adj. (from world.) 6. Something tornienting: 2. Secular; relating to this life, in con- The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. tradistinction to the life to come. Sbaéspeare. He is divinely bent to meditation; The chains of darkness, and th' undying And in no worldly suits would he be moved, To draw him from his holy exercise. Shuksp; 7. Any, thing vermiculated, or turned Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command? round; any thing spiral. Sbakspeare. The threads of screws, when bigger than can The fortitude of a christian consists in p?. be made in screw-places, are called pares. The tience; not in enterprize which the, puets length of a vorm begins at the one end of the ed. spindle, and ends at the other; the breadth of His is a maiden sbield, the worun is contained between any two grooves Cuiltless in fight: mine batter'd, hew'd, and on the spindle; the depth of the worm is cut bur’d, into the diameter of the spindle, viz. the depth Worn out of service, must forsake his lord. between the outside of the wurm, and the bot Dryden. TOIN of the grouve. Moxon. What I now offer, is the wretched remainder TO WORM, V. n. (from the noun.) To of a sickly age, worn out with study, and opwork slowly, secretly, and gradually. press'd by fortune. Dryden. When debates and freiting jealousy The greatest part of mankind are given up to Did worm and work within you more and more, labour, whose lives are worn out only in the proYour colour faded. visions for living. Locke. Herbert. TO WORM. v. a. Your cold hypocrisy 's a stale device, A worn-out trick; wouldst thou be thought in 1. To drive by slow and secret means, earnest, perhaps as by a screw. Cloath thy feign'd zeal in rage, in fire, in fury, They find themselves torm.dout of all power, Addison. by a new spawn of independents, sprung from WO'RNIL. n. S. your own bowels. Swift. In the backs of cows, in the summer, are mag2. To deprive a dog of something, nobody gots generated, which in Essex we call wornils, knows what, under his tongue, which being first only a small knot in the skin. Derbam. is said to prevent him, nobody knows TO WORRY. v. a. (ponizen, Sax. whence why, from running mad. perhaps the word warray:] Every one that keepeth a dog should have 1. To tear, or mangle, as a beast tears its him wormed. Mortimer. prey. W O'RMEATEN. adj. [worm and eaten.] If we, with thrice such powers left at home, 1. Gowed by worms. Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, For his verity in love, I do think him as con Let us be worried. Sbakspeare. cave as a covered goblet, or a wormeaten nut. The fury of the tumults might fly so high as Sbakspeare. to worry and tear those in pieces, whom as yet 2. Old; worthless. they but played with in their paws. K. Charles, His chamber all was hang'd abo'& with rolls, Tis no new thing for the dogs that are to keep And old records from antient times deriv’d; the wolves from worrying the sheep, to be deliSome made in books, some in long parchment vered up to the enemy, for fear the sheep should scrolls, worry the wolves. L'Estrange This revives and imitates that inhuman barThat were all wormeaten, and full of canker barity of the old heathen persecutors, wrapping hcles. Spenser. up christians in the skins of wild beasts, that sa had worn out of knowledge, were called ogygia, they might be worried and torn in pieces by dogs. South. which we call wurmeaten, or of defaced date. 2. To harass, or persecute brutally. Raleigh. Then embraces his son-in-law; then again seal's skin; worries he his daughter with clipping her. Sbaks. Or grave, that 's dust without, and stink within, For want of words, or lack of breath, Milton. WoʻRMWOOD. n. s. [from its virtue to kill worms in the body; perhaps pro It has ploased Providence at length to give us righteousress instead of exaction, and hopes of perly wormivort.) A plant. religion to a church worried with reformation. Worin rood hath an indeterminate stalk, branch Southe ing out into many small shoots, with spikes of All his care naked fowers hanging downward; the leaves Was to preserve me from the barbarous rage, are hoary and bitter. Of this plant there are Which worried him only for being mine. thirty-two species, one of which, the common Southern. Wormwood, grows in the roads; but it is also I shall not suffer him to worry any man's replanted in gardens for common use. Great va putation, nor indeed tall on any person whatsoriety of sea wormwoods are found in the salt Addison. marshes or Englard, and sold in the markets for Let them rail, the true Roman wormwood, though they differ And worry one another at their pleasure. Rowe. greatly. Miller. Madam, contrive and invent, And him out, till he gives his consent. Wormwood to my dug. Swift. Picuitous cacochymia must be corrected by bitiers, as wormwood wine. Floyer. Worse. adj. The comparative of bado I ask whether one be not invincibly conscious bad, worse, wvorst. [pirs, Saxon.] More to himself of a ditferent perception, when he bad; more ill. actually tastes wormwood, or only thinks on that Why should he see your faces worse liking savour? Locke. than the children of your sort ? Daniel. WO'RMY, adj. [from worm.] Full of In happiness and misery, the question stillre mains, how men come often to prefer the worse worms. Spirits that in crossways and floods have burial, to the better, and to chuse that, which, by their Already to their wor my beds are gone. Shuksp. own confession, has made them miserable? Yet can I not persuade me thou art dead, Locke. Or that thy corse corrupts in earth's dark womb, Worse. adv. In a manner more bad. Or that thy beauties lie in wormy bed. Milton. The more one sickens, the worse at ease he is. WORN. part. pass. of wear. Worn out is Sbakspears. quite consumed. The Wor$E. n. so [from the adjective.] ever. Sbokspeare. a a 3. The loss; not the advantage; not the The humble guest shall have worsbin in the better. presence of those who sit at meat with him. Was never man, who most conquests atchiev'd, Luke. But sometimes had tbe worse, and lost by war. Since God hath appointed government among Spenser. men, it is plain ibat his intention was, that some Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and kind of worship should be given from some to they fied to their tents. 2 Kings. others; for where there is a power to punish 2. Something less good. and reward, there is a foundation of worsbip in those who are under that power; which rer. A man, whatever are his professions, always sbip lies in expressing a due regard to that pos. thinks tbe worse of a woman, who forgives him er, by a care not to provoke it, and an endeafor making an attempt on her virtue. Clarissa. vour to obtain the favour of it; which, among TO WORSE. v. a. [from the adjective.] mankind, is called civil worsbip. Stilling peca To put to disadvantage. This word, 7. Idolatry of lovers; submissive respect, though analogical enough, is not now 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, used. Your hugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, Perhaps more valid arms, That can enrame my spirits to your worsbif. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, Sbakspears. May serve to better us, and worse our foes. To WOʻRSHIP. v. a. [from the noun.) Milton. 1. To adore ; to honour or venerate with WO'RSER. adj. A barbarous word, form- religious rites. ed hy corrupting worse with the usual Thou shalt worsbio no other God. Exodes, comparative termination. Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a Gods! take my breath from me; voluntary humility and wersbipping of angels. Classigns, Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please. Sbakspeare. The law of nature teacheth, that the true and A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far living God ought to be suersbipped, and that a Dryden, Than arms, a sullen interval of war. sufficient and convenient time is to be set apart for the same. With WOʻRSHIP, n. s. [peondscype, Saxon.] Adore and wors bip God supreme. Milier, 1. Dignity; eminence; excellence. First worsbip God; he that forgets to pay, Elín born of noble state, Bids not himself good-morrow nor good-day. And muckie worsbip in his native land, T. Ranssips Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. On the smooth rind the passenger shall see Spenser. Thy name engrav'd, and worsbip Helen's tree. My train are men of choice and rarest parts, Dryden. That all particulars of duty know; 2. To respect; to honour : to treat with And in the most exact regard support civil reverence The worship of their names. Shakspeare. Our grave, Thou madest him lower than the angels, to Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless crown him with glory and worsbip. Psalms. mouth, 2. A character or nonour. Not worshipp'd with a waren epitaph. Stakst. I belon: to warsbip, and affect 3. To monour with amorous respect. In honour, nonesty. Sbaksp. Wich bended knees I daily worship her, 3. A titie of nonour. Yet she consumes her own idolater." Catering Dinner is on table; my father desires your To WO'RSHIP. v.n. To perform acts of worship's company. Sbakspeare. adoration. The people went to wersbip before the golden calf. i Kirjat What lands and lordships for their owner know WOʻRSHIPFUL. adj. [worship and tail) My quondam bar ber, but his worship now. 1. Claiming respect by any character or Dryden. dignity: 4. A term of ir nical respect. This is worshipful society, Against your sporship when had Smk writ? And fits the mounting spirit like nuself . Or B-ge pour'd forth the torrent of his wir? Sealsport. Pope. When old age comes upon him, it ecues 5. Adoration ; religious act of reverence. alone, bringing no other evil with it; but wtea They join their vocal worsbig to the quire it comes to wait upon a great and aperiti! creatures wanting voice. Milion. sinner, who for many years has are well and Under the name of church, I understand a done ill, it is attended with a long uain of body or collection of human persons professing rheums. South faith in Christ, gathered together in several 2. A term of ironical respect. places of the world for the worship of the same Every ınan would think me an hypocrite : and God, and united into the same corporation. what excites your most wersbipful thought ta Pearson. think so? Stakspesie. He way'd a torch aloft, and madly vain, Suppose this worsbiofulidol be made, yet stål Sought godlike worsbip from a seyvile train. it wants sense and motion, Stillisztes. Dryden. WoʻRSHIPFULLY. adv. [from werstijo The wersbip of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious fu! ] Respectfully. worstip: hence religion is described by seeke Hastings will lose his head ere give consent Tillotson. His master's son, as worshipfully he terms it, There was a voyage of the Egyptians under Shall lose the royalty of England's throne. Osiris up the Danube; fron them the Suevı had Sbekrasta their worsbip of Isis. Arbuthnot. WO'RSHIPPER. 1. s. [from warstip} 6. Honour; respect; civil deference, Adores; one that worships, a ing God. Whitert thou, thou idol ceremony? 3. [hýnt, Saxon.) New beer, either un. What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more fermented, or in the act of fermenta. O: mortal griets than do thy worshippers? Slaépeare. tion. Those places did not confine the immensity of If in the wort of beer, while it worketh, before God, nor give his crorshippers a nearer approach it be tunned, the burrage be often changed with to heaven by their height. Soutb. fresh, it will make a sovereign drink for melanIf posterity takes its notions of us from our choly. Bacon medals, they must fancy one of our kings paid a. To Worth, or Wurth. v. n. (peandan, great devotion to Minerva, that another was a Saxon.) To be. This word is only now protessed worshipper of Apollo. Aldisun. By sanctifying the seventh day after they had retained in wo worth, or wurth; quo be. Wo worth the man laboured six, they avowed themselves worsbip That first did teach the cursed steel to bite pers of that only God who created heaven and earth. Nelson. In his own flesh, and make way to the living WORST. adj. [the superlative of bad, sp’rit. Spenser. formed froin worse; bad, worse, worst.1 WORTH, in the termination of the names Most bad; most ill. of places, comes from poro, a court or If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, farm; or pondig, a street or road. Thou hadst been knave and fatterer. Sbaksp: Gibson. The pain that any one actually feels is still of WORTH. n. 5. (peong, Saxon.) all other the worst, and it is with anguish they 1. Price; value. cry out. Lucke. WORST. n. s. The most calamitous or Your clemency will take in good wortb the offer of these my simple and mean labours. wicked state; the utmost height or de Hooker gree of any thing ill. What is worth in any thing, But so much money as 't will bring Hudibras. I'm worse than e'er I was, A common marcasite shall have the colour of And worse / inay be yet : the worst is not, gold exactly; and yet upon trial yield nothing of So long as we can say, this is the worst. worth but vitriol and sulphur. Woodward. Sbakspeare. 2. Excellence; virtue. That you may be armed against the wrórst in How can you him unworthy then decree, this unhappy state of affairs in our distressed In whose chief part your worihs implanted be? country, I send you these considerations on the Sidney. nature and immortality of the soul. Digby. Is there any man of worth and virtue, alHappy the man, and happy he alone, though not instructed in the school of Christ, He who can call to-day his own? that had not rather end the days of this transiHe who secure within can say, tory life as Cyrus, than to sink'down with them To-morrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd to- of whom Elihu hath said, memento moriuntur ? day. Hooker. Sir Roger gets into the frontiers of his estate Having from these sučk'd all they had of before he beats about in search of a hare, on worth, purpose to spare his own fields, where he is al And hrought home that faith which you carried ways sure of finding diversion when the werst furth, comes to the worst. Spectator. I throughly love. Donne. TO WORST. v. a. (from the adjective.] Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd. Milton. To defeat ; to overthrow. A nymph of your own train Gives us your character in such a strain, duellises enter the field, where the worsted party As none but she, who in that court did dwell, hath his sword given him again without further Could know such worth, or wortb describe so burt. Suckling. Waller. Detected voorth, like beauty disarray'd, Beat down and woorsted by the knight. Hudib. To covet Hies, of praise itself afraid. It is downright madness to contend where we are sure to be worsteid. L'Estrange. 3. Importance ; valuable quality. The victorious Philistines were worsted by the Peradventure those things, whereupon time captivated ark, which foraged their country inore was then well spent, have sithence that lost their than a conquering army. South. Hooker. She could have brought the chariot again, Take a man possessed with a strong desire of when she saw her brother worsted in the duel. any thing, and the worth and excellency of that Dryden. thing appears much greater than when that deWOʻRSTED. n. s. [from Worsted, a town sire is quite extinguished. South. in Norfolk famous for the woollen ma- WORTH. adj. nufacture.) Woollen yarn ; wool spun. 1. Equal in price to; equal in value to. A base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three suited, Women will love her that she is a woman, hundred pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave. More worth than any man; men that she is Sbukspeare. You have not thought it worth your labour to view; enter a professed dissent against a philosophy, The very worsted still look'd black and blue. which the greatest part of Europe have de Popes serted, as a mere maze of words. Glanville. WORT. n. s. (pire, Saxon ; wort, Dut.] As if 'tis nothing wortb that lies conceal’d, 1. Originally a general name for an herb; And science is not science till reveald. Dryden. whence it still continues in many, as It is wortb while to consider how ad. sirably he has turned the course of his narration, and liverwort, spleenwort. made his husbandman concerned even in what 3. A plant of the cabbage kind. selates to the battle. Addison D: yden. Young. a If your arguments produce no conviction, they she thought worthy of her, and that was one in are worth nothing to me. Beatrie. whom all worthinesses were harboured. Sidecy. 2. Deserving of: either in a good or bad He that is at all times good, must hold his sense. virtue to you, whose wortbiness would stir it up Your son and daughter found this trespass where it wanted, rather than slack it where worth there is such abundance. Sbakspeart. The shame which here it suffers. Sbaksp. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see and judge, and follow uorthiness, keeping, and capable to be made secure against And by deeds praise ir ? he who doth not this, a good army. Clarendon. Denne. Milton. thiness and curiosity of the subject in itself. Haste hither, Eve, and worth thy sight behold, Holder, Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape 3. State of being worthy ; quality of deComes this way moving. Milton. serving. She is not worthy to be loved, that bath not Is worthy of their love is worth their anger. some feeling of her own wertbiness. Siday, Denbam. Woʻrthless. adj. (from worth.) I have long had it in my thoughts to trouble lence. you with a letter ; but was discouraged for want You, his false hopes, the trust of England's of something that I could think worth sending honour, fifteen hundred miles. Berkley to Pape. Keep off aloof, with wortbless emulation. Many things are worth enquiry to one man, Sbakspeare. which are not so to another. Walis. A little time will melt her frozen thoughts, 3. Equal in possessions to. And wortbless Valentine shall be forgot. Sbaks. Dang’rous rocks, On Laura's lap you lay, Which, touching but my gentle vessel's side, Chiding the wortbless crowd away. Rescoren, Would scatter all the spices on the stream, 2. Having no value. Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks, Anxious pains we all the day, Shakspeare. Scorning at night the wortbless prey, We find the labour gave the joy. Prior. the best endowed and most beautiful virgin of Am I then doom'd to fall their island. Sandyr. By a boy's hand, and for a worthless woman? At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth Addisor. twenty hundred thousand crowns. Addison. WO'RTHLESSNESS. n. s. [from woribiess.] WOʻRTHILY. adv. (trom worthy. ] Want of excellence; want of dignity; 1. Suitably; not below the rate of. want of value. The divine criginal of our souls hath little in But that mine own wortblessness spoils the fluence upon us to engage us to walk worthily of conceit, I could think our company parallel to our extraction, and do nothing that is base. the seven wise men of Greece. More. Ray. A notable account is given us by the apostle 3. Deservedly; according to merit. of this windy insignificant charity of the will, and l'hey are betray'd, of the wortblessness of it, not enlivened by deeds. While they pervert pure nature's healthful South rules, Woʻrthy. adj. [from wortb.) To loathsome sickness, wortbily, since they God's image did not reverence in themselves. 1. Deserving; such as merits : with of be Milton. fore the thing deserved. You worthily succeed, not only to the honour She deterinined never to marry any but him of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. whom she thought worthy of her, and that was Dryden. one in whom all worthinesses, were harboured. 3. Justly; not without cause. Sidey. Christian men having, besides the common Further I will not flatter you, light of all men, so great help of heavenly direc That all I see in you is weriby love, tion from above, together with the lamps of so Than this; that nothing do I see in you That should merit hate. bright examples as the church of God doth yield, Sbakspears it cannot but worthily seem reproachful for us Thou art wortby of the sway, to leave both the one and the other. Hooker. To whom the heav'ns in thy nativity Sbakspeare. And wortbily, my falsehood ! Sbakspeare. 2. Valuable; noble; illustrious; having A christian cannot lawfully hate any one; and excellence or dignity. yet I attirm that some inay very wortbily de- If the best things have the perfectest and best serve to be hated; and, of all, the deceiver de. operations, it will follow, that seeing man is the serves it most. Soutb. zvortbiest creature on earth, and every society of WOʻRTHINESS. n. s: [from worthy.] men more worthy than any man, and of society · that most excellent which we call the church. 1. Desert ; merit. Hooker. The prayers which our Saviour made were, He now on Pompey's basis lies along, for his own worthiness, accepted; ours God ac- No wortbier than the dust! Sbakspeare. cepteth not, but with this condition, if they be A war upon the Turks is more wertby than joined with a belief in Christ. Hooker. upon any other gentiles, in point of religion and 2. Excellence; dignity; virtue. honour; though hope of success might invite Determining never to marry but him whom some other choice. Bases |