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wort

1[wurt, wawrt]
noun
the unfermented or fermenting infusion of malt that after fermentation becomes beer or mash.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English wyrt; cognate with German Würze spice; akin to wort2

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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wort

2[wurt, wawrt]
noun
a plant, herb, or vegetable (now usually used only in combination): figwort.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English wyrt root, plant; cognate with Old High German wurz, Old Norse urt herb, Gothic waurts root; akin to root1, Old Norse rōt, Latin rādīx, Greek rhíza

wort

3[wurt]
noun
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wort (wɜːt)
 
n
1.  (in combination) any of various unrelated plants, esp ones formerly used to cure diseases: liverwort; spleenwort
2.  the sweet liquid obtained from the soaked mixture of warm water and ground malt, used to make a malt liquor
 
[Old English wyrt root, related to Old High German warz, Gothic waurts root]

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wort
"a plant," O.E. wyrt "root, herb," from P.Gmc. *wurtiz (cf. O.S. wurt, O.N., Dan. urt, O.H.G. wurz "plant, herb," Ger. Wurz, Goth. waurts, O.N. rot "root"), from PIE base *wrad- "twig, root" (see radish).
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