Associations to the word «Wort»

Wiktionary

WORT, noun. A plant; herb; vegetable.
WORT, noun. Any of various plants or herbs. The word is usually used in combination to refer to specific plants, e.g. St. John’s wort; however, it may be used on its own as a generic term.
WORT, noun. Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer

Dictionary definition

WORT, noun. Usually used in combination: `liverwort'; `milkwort'; `whorlywort'.
WORT, noun. Unfermented or fermenting malt.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne