WORT, noun [G., Latin , to grow; green.] 1. A plant; an herb; now used chiefly or wholly in compounds; as in mugwort, liverwort, spleenwort. 2. A plant of the cabbage kind. 3. New beer unfermented, or in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt.
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