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whort dial. (hwɜːt) Also 6–7 whorte, 7 whurt, 9 wort. [South-western dial. form of hurt n.2 (cf. whoam for home, whole for earlier hole, and whortleberry).] = whortleberry. Also attrib. Hence ˈwhorting vbl. n., gathering whortleberries.1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. xi. 670 There be two sortes of Whortes, an...
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whortleberry
whortleberry (ˈhwɜːt(ə)lbɛrɪ) Also (8 whirtle-), 8–9 wortleberry. [South-western dial. form of hurtleberry: cf. whort. Used by Lyte, a Somerset man, in his translation of Dodoens' Herbal, whence app. by later writers on plants, so as to have become at length the usual ‘book-name’.] The blue-black fr...
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marshwort
marshwort (ˈmɑːʃwɜːt) [See marsh n.1 and wort.] The umbelliferous plant Helosciadium (Sium) nodiflorum.1776 Withering Bot. Arrangem. Vegetables I. 127 Marshwort, Samolus. 1897 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Dec. 617 Procumbent marsh-wort, Helosciadium nodiflorum, is a plant with the habit of watercress. ¶ An ...
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wort
▪ I. wort, n.1 (wɜːt) Forms: 1 wyrt, 2 wirte, 6 pl. wirtes; 2 wert, 4 pl. wertes; 1, 3, 5–7 wurt (5 pl. wurten), 3 wrt, 3–7 worte (5 wourte), 4– wort (5 pl. worttus, 6 woort). [OE. wyrt root, plant = OS. wurt, OHG. (MHG. and G.) wurz, ON. (Icel., Norw., Sw., Da.) urt, Goth. waurts; the stem is relat...
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hurt
▪ I. hurt, n.1 (hɜːt) Forms: 2–7 hurte, 4 hirt, hourte, 5 hort, hurth, 5–6 hurtt(e, 4– hurt. [app. a. OF. hurte (mod.F. heurte) shock of collision, stroke, blow, f. hurter, heurter: see hurt v. Cf. also later F. heurt ‘shocke, push, or dash; violent meeting or conflict; a knock or knocking together’...
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fen
▪ I. fen, n.1 (fɛn) Forms: α. 1 fen(n, 3–7 fenn(e, (4 feen, 6 finne, fene), 2– fen. β. 2 ven, 2–4 venn(e. [OE. fęn, fęnn neut., masc. = OFris. fenne, fene masc. (MDu., MLG. venne, Du. ven fem., Du. veen neut.) water-meadow, bog, OHG. fenna fem., fenni neut. (Ger. fenne neut., fehn fem.) marsh, ON. f...
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and blue
▪ I. red, a. and n. (rɛd) Forms: 1 réad, 2–6 read(e, 3 ræd(en, 3–6 rede, reed(e, 4–6 redd(e, (compar. 4 raddore, 5 -ur), 4–8 Sc. reid, (6 rid), 2– red. [Comm. Teut.: OE. réad = OFris. râd, OS. (M.Du., MLG.) rôd (Du., LG. rood), OHG., MHG. rōt (mod.G. roth, rot), ON. rauðr (Sw., Da. röd), Goth. rauþs...
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