wort
wort / wərt; wôrt/ • n. 1. [in comb.] used in names of plants and herbs, esp. those used, esp. formerly, as food or medicinally, e.g., butterwort, woundwort. ∎ archaic such a plant or herb.2. the sweet infusion of ground malt or other grain before fermentation, used to produce beer and distilled malt liquors.
wort
wort1 herb, vegetable OE.; cabbage XIV. OE. wyrt root, plant = OS. wurt, (O)HG. wurz, ON. urt, Goth. waurts; cf. ROOT1.
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