▪ I. † ˈworthing1 Obs.
Forms: 1 weorðung, 1–2 wurðung, 1–3 wurðing; 1 worðung, 3–4 worþing (4 worþynge).
[OE. weorðung, wurðung, f. weorð-, wurðian worth v.2]
Honour; respect; worship.
| c 897 ælfred Gregory's Past. C. iii. 35 For ðære weorðunge ðæs folces he bið on ofermettu awended. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark vi. 4 Ne is witᵹe buta worðung. c 1000 ælfric Lev. ii. 2 Lecge uppan þæt weofod Drihtne to wurþunga. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 59 Þencheð nu men hwilch wurðin(g) eow haueð idon þe heouenking. Ibid. 109 Godes laȝe bit ec mon wurðie efre his feder and his moder mid muchelere wurþunge. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 33 Ðu giue me seli timinge To thaunen ðis werdes biginninge, Ðe, leuerd god, to wurðinge. Ibid. 3787 Of ðo Reklefates for wurðing, Woren mad..Corunes. a 1300 Fall & Passion 5 in E.E.P. (1862) 13 Þat ic mote wiþ moch worþing..to ȝov schow is vp-rising. c 1315 Shoreham iii. 182 As al holy cherche þe tekþ, Þou make þyne worþynge. |
b. worthing day, Sunday; worthing-night, ? Sunday night.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 9 Þat wes heore sunedei and bet heo heolden heore wurðing dei þene we doð. a 1327 Adam Davy's Dreams 87 Me met a sweuene, on worþing-niȝth Of þat ilche derworþe kniȝth. |
▪ II. † ˈworthing2 Obs.
[app. f. ME. wurþ worth a. Cf. gooding vbl. n.]
Dung; manure. Also fig., moral corruption or filth.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 85 Þet smal chef þet flid ford mid þe winde bicumeð wurþinge. a 1200 St. Marher. 3 Ne lettu neauer þe unhwiht warpen hire i wurðinge. c 1230 Hali Meid. 13 Þe ilke sari wrecches þe i þe fule wurðinge vnwedde waleweð..þeos walewið i wurðinge, & forrotieð þrin. |
| c 1582 in T. West Antiq. Furness (1774) App. viii. 3 D 4, Five hundred fudder, or wayne load, alias coupe load, of wurthinge or dung. 1591 Broomfleet Manor Roll (MS.), Item, that Thomas Waile remove his swynestye..that the worthing or fylth theirof do not corrupt the water. 1592 in Lancs. Q. Sess. Rec. (Chetham Soc.) I. 54 Eighte wayne lodes of worthinge or dounge. 1605 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 161, xxj lood of worthing for barlye..; xv loodes of worthinge, with good store of lyme in yt. |
| attrib. 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 337/1 A Worthing Forke, or a Dung Fork. 1876 E. Leigh Cheshire Gloss., Wording hook, dungfork. |