Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter W - Page 41
Worm (n.) (Zool.) pl. Same as Vermes.
Worm (n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! -- Shak.
Worm (n.) A being debased and
despised.
I am a worm, and no man. -- Ps. xxii. 6.
Worm (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as:
Worm (n.) The thread of a screw.
The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. -- Moxon.
Worm (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
Worm (n.) (Anat.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
Worm (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
Worm (n.) (Mach.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
Worm abscess (Med.), An abscess produced by the irritation resulting from the lodgment of a worm in some part of the body.
Worm fence. See under Fence.
Worm gear. (Mach.) (a) A worm wheel.
Worm gear. (Mach.) (b) Worm gearing.
Worm gearing, Gearing consisting of a worm and worm wheel working together.
Worm grass. (Bot.) (a) See Pinkroot, 2 (a) .
Worm grass. (Bot.) (b) The white stonecrop ({Sedum album) reputed to have qualities as a vermifuge. -- Dr. Prior.
Worm oil (Med.), An anthelmintic consisting of oil obtained from the seeds of Chenopodium anthelminticum.
Worm powder (Med.), An anthelmintic powder.
Worm snake. (Zool.) See Thunder snake (b), under Thunder.
Worm tea (Med.), An anthelmintic tea or tisane.
Worm tincture (Med.), A tincture prepared from dried earthworms, oil of tartar, spirit of wine, etc. [Obs.]
Worm wheel, A cogwheel having teeth formed to fit into the spiral spaces of a screw called a worm, so that the wheel may be turned by, or may turn, the worm; -- called also worm gear, and sometimes tangent wheel. See Illust. of Worm gearing, above.
Wormed (imp. & p. p.) of Worm.
Worming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Worm.
Worm (v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
Worm (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
They find themselves wormed out of all power. -- Swift.
They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell. -- Dickens.
Worm (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
Worm (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies. -- Sir W. Scott.
Worm (n.) (Naut.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
Ropes . . . are generally wormed before they are served. -- Totten.
To worm one's self into, to enter into gradually by arts and insinuations; as, to worm one's self into favor.
Worm (n.) Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae.
Worm (n.) A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: worm, louse, insect, dirt ball].
Worm (n.) A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers."
Worm (n.) Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack.
Worm (v.) To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist].
WORM, () Write Once Read Many (CD).
Worm (n.) [from tapeworm in John Brunner's novel The Shockwave Rider, via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was Robert T. Morris's Great Worm of 1988, a ?benign? one that got out of control and hogged hundreds of Suns and VAXen across the U.S. See also {cracker, RTM, Trojan horse, ice.
Worm, () (From "Tapeworm" in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC) A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms.
Perhaps the best-known example was the Great Worm.
Compare: Trojan horse.
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Write-Once Read-Many
WORM
(WORM) Any type of storage medium to which data can be written to only a single time, but can be read from any number of times. Typically this is an optical disk whose surface is permanently etched using a laser in order to record information. WORM media have a significantly longer shelf life than magnetic media and thus are used when data must be preserved for a long time. (1996-04-01)
Worm, () Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth.
Worm, () The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars or larvae, which feed on corrupting matter.
These two Hebrew words appear to be interchangeable (Job 25:6; Isa. 14:11). Tola'im in some places denotes the caterpillar (Deut. 28:39; Jonah 4:7), and rimmah, the larvae, as bred from putridity (Job 17:14; 21:26; 24:20). In Micah 7:17, where it is said, "They shall move out of their holes like worms," perhaps serpents or "creeping things," or as in the Revised Version, "crawling things," are meant. The word is used figuratively in Job 25:6; Ps. 22:6; Isa. 41:14; Mark 9:44, 46, 48; Isa. 66:24.
Compare: Wormil
Wormil (n.) (Zool.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores.
They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.
[Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.]
Wormil (n.) (Far.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b).
Wormal (n.) (Zool.) See Wormil.
Worm-eaten (a.) Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber.
Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut. -- Shak.
Worm-eaten (a.) Worn-out; old; worthless. [R.] -- Sir W. Raleigh. -- Worm"-eat`en*ness, n. [R.] -- Dr. John Smith.
Worm-eaten (a.) Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn: vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy].
Worm (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Wormed; p. pr. & vb. n. Worming.] To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded. -- Herbert.
Wormed (a.) Penetrated by worms; injured by worms; worm-eaten; as, wormed timber.
Wormhole (n.) A burrow made by a worm.
Wormhole (n.) Hole made by a burrowing worm.
Wormhole (n.) [from the wormhole singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity theory] [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a different routine. This term is now obsolescent; modern operating systems use clusters of wormholes extensively (for modularization of I/O handling in particular, as in the Unix device-driver organization) but the preferred techspeak for these clusters is ?device tables?, ?jump tables? Or ?capability tables?.
Wormhole (n.) [Amateur Packet Radio] A network path using a commercial satellite link to join two or more amateur VHF networks. So called because traffic routed through a wormhole leaves and re-enters the amateur network over great distances with usually little clue in the message routing header as to how it got from one relay to the other. Compare gopher hole (sense 2).
Back door
Wormhole
(Or "{trap door", "{wormhole}"). A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers. The motivation for such holes is not always sinister; some operating systems, for example, come out of the box with privileged accounts intended for use by field service technicians or the vendor's maintenance programmers. See also iron box, cracker, worm, logic bomb. Historically, back doors have often lurked in systems longer than anyone expected or planned, and a few have become widely known. The infamous RTM worm of late 1988, for example, used a back door in the BSD Unix "sendmail(8)" utility.
Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture to the ACM revealed the existence of a back door in early Unix versions that may have qualified as the most fiendishly clever security hack of all time. The C compiler contained code that would recognise when the "login" command was being recompiled and insert some code recognizing a password chosen by Thompson, giving him entry to the system whether or not an account had been created for him.
Normally such a back door could be removed by removing it from the source code for the compiler and recompiling the compiler.
But to recompile the compiler, you have to *use* the compiler -- so Thompson also arranged that the compiler would *recognize when it was compiling a version of itself*, and insert into the recompiled compiler the code to insert into the recompiled "login" the code to allow Thompson entry - and, of course, the code to recognise itself and do the whole thing again the next time around! And having done this once, he was then able to recompile the compiler from the original sources; the hack perpetuated itself invisibly, leaving the back door in place and active but with no trace in the sources.
The talk that revealed this truly moby hack was published as ["Reflections on Trusting Trust", "Communications of the ACM 27", 8 (August 1984), pp. 761--763].
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Wormian (a.) (Anat.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist.
Wormian bones, Small irregular plates of bone often interposed in the sutures between the large cranial bones.
Wormil (n.) (Zool.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. [Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.]
Wormil (n.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b).
Wormling (n.) A little worm.
Wormseed (n.) Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines.
Worm-shaped (a.) Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shaped root.
Worm-shell (n.) Any species of Vermetus.
Wormul (n.) (Zool.) See Wornil.
Wormwood (n.) (Bot.) 【植】苦艾 A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
Wormwood (n.) 苦惱；悔恨 Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.
Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood. -- Deut. xxix. 18.
{Roman wormwood} (Bot.), An American weed ({Ambrosia artemisiaefolia}); hogweed.
{Tree wormwood} (Bot.), A species of Artemisia (probably {Artemisia variabilis}) with woody stems.
{Wormwood hare} (Zool.), A variety of the common hare ({Lepus timidus}); -- so named from its color.
Wormwood (n.) Any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium.
Wormwood (n.) Heb. la'anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deut. 29:18; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15; Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suffering. In Amos 6:12 this Hebrew word is rendered "hemlock" (R.V., "wormwood"). In the symbolical language of the Apocalypse (Rev. 8:10, 11) a star is represented as falling on the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to turn wormwood.
The name by which the Greeks designated it, absinthion, means "undrinkable." The absinthe of France is distilled from a species of this plant. The "southernwood" or "old man," cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is another species of it.
Wormy (a.) 有蟲的；蟲多的；蟲蛀的；似蟲的；卑躬屈膝的 Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds." -- Shak.
Wormy (a.) Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.
Wormy (a.) Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn: {vermiculate}, {worm-eaten}, {wormy}].
Wormy (a.) Totally submissive [syn: {cringing}, {groveling}, {grovelling}, {wormlike}, {wormy}].
Warn (v. t.) To refuse. [Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Wear (v. t.) [imp. Wore; p. p. Worn; p. pr. & vb. n. Wearing. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being Weared.] To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
What compass will you wear your farthingale? -- Shak.
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. -- Pope.
Wear (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. "He wears the rose of youth upon him." -- Shak.
His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. -- Keble.
Wear (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
That wicked wight his days doth wear. -- Spenser.
The waters wear the stones. -- Job xiv. 19.
Wear (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
Wear (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. -- Locke.
To wear away, To consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay.
To wear off, To diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth.
To wear on or To wear upon, To wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" -- Chaucer.
To wear out. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book.
To wear out. (b) To consume tediously. "To wear out miserable days." -- Milton.
To wear out. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wear out the saints of he Most High." -- Dan vii. 25.
To wear out. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service.
To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.]
Worn () p. p. of {Wear}.
{Worn land}, Land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.
Worn (a.) 用舊的，磨壞的；精疲力盡的，憔悴的 Affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" [ant: {new}].
Worn (a.) Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: {careworn}, {drawn}, {haggard}, {raddled}, {worn}].
Compare: Wormil
Wormil (n.) [Cf. 1st Warble.] (Zool.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores.
They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. [Written also wormal, wormul, and wornil.]
Wormil (n.) (Far.) See 1st Warble, 1 (b) .
Wornil (n.) (Zool.) See Wormil.
Worn-out (a.) Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments. Worral
Worn-out (a.) Used until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles" [syn: raddled, worn-out].
Worn-out (a.) Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out" [syn: exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p)].
Worral (n.) Alt. of Worrel.
Worrel (n.) (Zool.) An Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown.
Compare: Wariangle
Wariangle (n.) (Zool.) The red-backed shrike ({Lanius collurio); -- called also w["u]rger, worrier, and throttler. [Written also warriangle, weirangle, etc.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Worrier (n.) One who worries.
Worrier (n.) Thinks about unfortunate things that might happen [syn: worrier, fuss-budget, fusspot, worrywart].
Worriment (n.) Trouble; anxiety; worry. [Colloq. U. S.]
Worriment (n.) A difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment].
Worriment (n.) A difficulty that causes anxiety. (Syn.) Troublesomeness, Inconvenience.
// To him, everything was a worriment, and his anxiety increased every day.
Worrisome (a.) 令人煩惱的；悶悶不樂的 Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.
Worrisome (a.) Not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety [syn: {unreassuring}, {worrisome}] [ant: {reassuring}].
Worrisome (a.) Causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" [syn: {distressing}, {distressful}, {disturbing}, {perturbing}, {troubling}, {worrisome}, {worrying}].
Worrit (v. t.) To worry; to annoy. [Illiterate]
Worrit (n.) Worry; anxiety. [Illiterate]
Worried (imp. & p. p.) of Worry.
Worrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Worry.
Worry (v. t.) To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. -- Shak.
Worry (v. t.) To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to fret; to trouble; to plague. "A church worried with reformation." -- South.
Let them rail, And worry one another at their pleasure. -- Rowe.
Worry him out till he gives consent. -- Swift.
Worry (v. t.) To harass with labor; to fatigue. [Colloq.]
Worry (v. i.) To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifest disquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries; the horse worries.
Worries (n. pl. ) of Worry.
Worry (n.) A state of undue solicitude; a state of disturbance from care and anxiety; vexation; anxiety; fret; as, to be in a worry. "The whir and worry of spindle and of loom." -- Sir T. Browne.
Worry (n.) Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" [syn: concern, worry, headache, vexation].
Worry (n.) A strong feeling of anxiety; "his worry over the prospect of being fired"; "it is not work but worry that kills"; "he wanted to die and end his troubles" [syn: worry, trouble].
Worry (v.) Be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy; "I worry about my job."
Worry (v.)Be concerned with; "I worry about my grades" [syn: worry, care].
Worry (v.) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me" [syn: worry, vex] [ant: assure, reassure].
Worry (v.) Be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift" [syn: concern, interest, occupy, worry].
Worry (v.) Lacerate by biting; "the dog worried his bone."
Worry (v.) Touch or rub constantly; "The old man worried his beads."
Worryingly (adv.) In a worrying manner.
Worryingly (adv.) In a manner to cause worry.
Worse (a.) Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
Or worse, if men worse can devise. -- Chaucer.
[She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. -- Mark v. 26.
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. -- 2 Tim. iii. 13.
There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse. -- Rambler.
"But I love him." "Love him? Worse and worse." -- Gay.
Worse (n.) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
Worse (n.) That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
Worse (a.) In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
Worse (v. t.) To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.
Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. -- Milton.
Compare: Bad
Bad (a.) [Compar. Worse (w[^u]s); superl. Worst (w[^u]st).] [Probably fr. AS. b[ae]ddel hermaphrodite; cf. b[ae]dling effeminate fellow.] Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad crop; bad news.
Note: Sometimes used substantively.
The strong antipathy of good to bad. -- Pope.
Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious; imperfect.
Worse (adv.) (Comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner; "he did worse on the second exam."
Worse (a.) (Comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability; "this road is worse than the first one we took"; "the road is in worse shape than it was"; "she was accused of worse things than cheating and lying" [ant: better].
Worse (a.) Changed for the worse in health or fitness; "I feel worse today"; "her cold is worse" [syn: worse, worsened] [ant: better].
Worse (n.) Something inferior in quality or condition or effect; "for better or for worse"; "accused of cheating and lying and worse."
Worsen (v. t.) To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.
It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened. -- Southey.
Worsen (v. t.) To get the better of; to worst. [R.]
Worsen (v. i.) To grow or become worse. -- De Quincey.
Indifferent health, which seemed rather to worsen than improve. -- Carlyle.
Worsen (v.) Grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn: worsen, decline] [ant: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate].
Worsen (v.) Make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate] [ant: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate].
Worser (a.) Worse. [R.]
Thou dost deserve a worser end. -- Beau. & Fl.
From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. -- Bunyan.
A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. -- Dryden.
Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs occasionally in the best authors, although commonly accounted a vulgarism. It has, at least, the analogy of lesser to sanction its issue. See Lesser. "The experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen associates, by choice or circumstance, peculiarly teaches." -- Hallam.
Worship (v. i.) 做禮拜； 熱愛； 愛慕； 崇拜（尤指達到看不到缺點的地步） To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. -- John iv. 20.
Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence? -- Longfellow.
Worship (n.) [U] 崇拜；敬仰；敬神；禮拜，禮拜儀式；【英】（用作尊稱）閣下 Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. [Obs.] -- Shak.
A man of worship and honour. -- Chaucer.
Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. -- Spenser.
Worship (n.) Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.]
Of which great worth and worship may be won. -- Spenser.
Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. -- Luke xiv. 10.
Worship (n.) Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
My father desires your worships' company. -- Shak.
Worship (n.) The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. "God with idols in their worship joined." -- Milton.
The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship. -- Tillotson.
Worship (n.) Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship. -- Shak.
Worship (n.) An object of worship.
In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair. -- Longfellow.
Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.
Worshiped (imp. & p. p.) of Worship.
Worshipped () of Worship.
Worshiping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Worship.
Worshipping () of Worship.
Worship (v. t.) 崇拜；敬重；愛慕；信奉 To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence. [Obsoles.] -- Chaucer.
Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph. -- Shak.
This holy image that is man God worshipeth. -- Foxe.
Worship (v. t.) To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
But God is to be worshiped. -- Shak.
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones. -- Milton.
Worship (v. t.) To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
With bended knees I daily worship her. -- Carew.
Syn: To adore; revere; reverence; bow to; honor.
Worship (n.) The activity of worshipping.
Worship (n.) A feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: worship, adoration].
Worship (v.) Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" [syn: idolize, idolise, worship, hero-worship, revere].
Worship (v.) Show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva."
Worship (v.) Attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional manner."
Worshipability (n.) The quality of being worthy to be worshiped. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Worshipability (n.) Capability of being worshiped; worthiness of veneration.
Compare: Capability
Capability (n.) (Capabilities) (Often capability of doing/ to do something) 能力，才能 [C] [U] [（+for/ of）] [+to-v]；性能，功能；耐受力 [C] [U]；潛力，未展現的特色 [P] [（+as）] The power or ability to do something.
‘He had an intuitive capability of bringing the best out in people.’
‘The company's capability to increase productivity.’
Capability (n.) (Often Capabilities) The extent of someone's or something's ability.
‘The job is beyond my capabilities.’
Capability (n.) A facility on a computer for performing a specified task.
‘A graphics capability.’
Capability (n.) Forces or resources giving a country the ability to undertake a particular kind of military action.
‘Their nuclear weapons capability.’
Compare: Worthiness
Worthiness (n.) [U] [Mass noun] 值得尊重，可敬佩；有價值 The quality of being good enough; suitability.
‘He demonstrates his worthiness to rule.’
‘You proved your worthiness as a leader.’
‘How do you go about assessing the worthiness of a book proposal?’
Worthiness (n.) [U] [Mass noun] The quality of deserving attention or respect.
‘An argument about the moral worthiness of the nation's founders.’
‘Doubts about the worthiness of writing novels.’
Compare: Veneration
Veneration (n.) [Mass noun] 尊敬 Great respect; reverence.
‘The traditional veneration of saints.’
Worshipable (a.) Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Worshiper (n.) One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores. [Written also worshipper.]
Worshiper (n.) Someone who admires too much to recognize faults [syn: worshiper, worshipper].
Worshiper (n.) A person who has religious faith [syn: believer, worshiper, worshipper].
Worshipper (n.) [ C ] (UK) (US usually worshiper) (Religion) 崇拜上帝的人；做禮拜的人 Someone who goes to a religious ceremony to worship God.
// At 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, worshippers began to stream out of the cathedral.
Worshipper (n.) [ C ] (UK) (US usually worshiper) (Religion) 敬神者；崇拜者 Someone who worships and performs religious ceremonies to a particular god or object.
// Devil/ idol worshippers.
Worshipper (n.) [ C ] (Enjoy) (Informal) （對…）狂熱崇拜者，極度癡狂的人 Someone who enjoys or values a particular thing very much or too much.
// Sun worshippers.
Worshipful (a.) Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." -- Shak.
[She is] so dear and worshipful. -- Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv. -- Wor"ship*ful*ness, n.
Worshipful (a.) Showing adoration [syn: adoring, worshipful].
Worshipful (a.) Showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life" [syn: godly, reverent, worshipful].
Worst (a.) Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse. "Heard so oft in worst extremes." -- Milton.
I have a wife, the worst that may be. -- Chaucer.
If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer. -- Shak.
Worst (n.) That which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious, calamitous, or wicked state or degree.
The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst. -- Shak.
He is always sure of finding diversion when the worst comes to the worst. -- Addison.
Bad (a.) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad crop; bad news.
Note: Sometimes used substantively.
The strong antipathy of good to bad. -- Pope.
Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious; imperfect.
Worst (adv.) To the highest degree of inferiority or badness; "She suffered worst of all"; "schools were the worst hit by government spending cuts"; "the worst dressed person present."
Worst (a.) (Superlative of `bad') Most wanting in quality or value or condition; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year" [ant: best].
Worst (n.) The least favorable outcome; "the worst that could happen."
Worst (n.) The greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable; "the invaders did their worst"; "so pure of heart that his worst is another man's best."
Worst (n.) The weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of; "it was the worst he had ever done on a test" [ant: best].
Worst (v.) Defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" [syn: worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up].
Worsted (imp. & p. p.) of Worst.
Worsting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Worst.
Worst (v. t.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.
The . . . Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark. -- South.
Worst (v. i.) To grow worse; to deteriorate. [R.] "Every face . . . worsting." -- Jane Austen.
Worsted (n.) Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like.
Worsted (n.) Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery.
Worsted (n.) A woolen fabric with a hard textured surface and no nap; woven of worsted yarns "he wore a worsted suit."
Worsted (n.) A tightly twisted woolen yarn spun from long-staple wool [syn: worsted, worsted yarn].
Wort (n.) (Bot.) A plant of any kind.
Note: This word is now chiefly used in combination, as in colewort, figwort, St. John's-wort, woundwort, etc.
Wort (n.) pl. Cabbages.
Wort (n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.
Note: Wort consists essentially of a dilute solution of sugar, which by fermentation produces alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Wort (n.) Usually used in combination: `liverwort'; `milkwort'; `whorlywort.'
Wort (n.) Unfermented or fermenting malt.
Worth (v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
I counsel . . . to let the cat worthe. -- Piers Plowman.
He worth upon [got upon] his steed gray. -- Chaucer.
Worth (a.) Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. [Obs.]
It was not worth to make it wise. -- Chaucer.
Worth (a.) Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats. -- Shak.
All our doings without charity are nothing worth. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me. -- Beattie.
Worth (a.) Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. -- Milton.
This is life indeed, life worth preserving. -- Addison.
Worth (a.) Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns. -- Addison.
Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n.
Worth (n.) That quality of a
thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which
render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a
standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring? -- Hudibras.
Worth (n.) Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
To be of worth, and worthy estimation. -- Shak.
As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could know such worth, or worth describe so well. -- Waller.
To think how modest worth neglected lies. -- Shenstone.
Syn: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.
Worth (a.) Worthy of being treated in a particular way; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically) [syn: deserving, worth(p)].
Worth (a.) Having a specified value; "not worth his salt"; "worth her weight in gold."
Worth (n.) An indefinite quantity of something having a specified value; "10 dollars worth of gasoline."
Worth (n.) The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful [ant: ineptitude, worthlessness].
Worth (n.) French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895) [syn: Worth, Charles Frederick Worth]
Worth -- U.S. County in Iowa
Population (2000): 7909
Housing Units (2000): 3534
Land area (2000): 399.997159 sq. miles (1035.987843 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.713199 sq. miles (4.437166 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 401.710358 sq. miles (1040.425009 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.364399 N, 93.265609 W
Headwords:
Worth
Worth, IA
Worth County
Worth County, IA
Worth -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 2382
Housing Units (2000): 1245
Land area (2000): 266.520008 sq. miles (690.283622 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.232997 sq. miles (0.603460 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 266.753005 sq. miles (690.887082 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.475472 N, 94.427608 W
Headwords:
Worth
Worth, MO
Worth County
Worth County, MO
Worth -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 21967
Housing Units (2000): 9086
Land area (2000): 569.727003 sq. miles (1475.586100 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.856238 sq. miles (12.577598 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 574.583241 sq. miles (1488.163698 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location:
31.556977 N, 83.840672 W
Headwords:
Worth
Worth, GA
Worth County
Worth County, GA
Worth, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
Population (2000): 94
Housing Units (2000): 50
Land area (2000): 0.248171 sq. miles (0.642759 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.248171 sq. miles (0.642759 sq. km)
FIPS code: 81070
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.405489 N, 94.447079 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64499
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Worth, MO
Worth
Worth, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 11047
Housing Units (2000): 4513
Land area (2000): 2.383681 sq. miles (6.173705 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.022083 sq. miles (0.057194 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.405764 sq. miles (6.230899 sq. km)
FIPS code: 83518
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.688827 N, 87.792659 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60482
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Worth, IL
Worth
Worthful (a.) Full of worth; worthy; deserving. -- Marston.
Worthful (a.) Having worth or merit or value; "a valuable friend"; "a good and worthful man" [syn: valuable, worthful].
Worthily (adv.) In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. -- Dryden.
Some may
very worthily deserve to be hated. -- South.
Worthily (adv.) In a worthy manner; with
worthiness.
Worthiness (n.) The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.
Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness? -- Donne.
She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her own worthiness. -- Sir P. Sidney.
The prayers which our Savior made were for his own worthiness accepted. -- Hooker.
Worthiness (n.) The quality or state of having merit or value [ant: unworthiness].