Wort

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A plant of any kind.

II. Wort ·noun Cabbages.

III. Wort ·noun 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.

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