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▪ I. † ˈworthing1 Obs.
Forms: 1 weorðung, 1–2 wurðung, 1–3 wurðing; 1 worðung, 3–4 worþing (4 worþynge).
[OE. weorðung, wurðung, f. weorð-, wurðian worth v.2]
Honour; respect; worship.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. iii. 35 For ðære weorðunge ðæs folces he bið on ofermettu awended. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark vi. 4 Ne is witᵹe buta worðung. c1000ælfric Lev. ii. 2 Lecge uppan þæt weofod Drihtne to wurþunga. c1175Lamb. Hom. 59 Þencheð nu men hwilch wurðin(g) eow haueð idon þe heouenking. Ibid. 109 Godes laȝe bit ec mon wurðie efre his feder and his moder mid muchelere wurþunge. c1250Gen. & Ex. 33 Ðu giue me seli timinge To thaunen ðis werdes biginninge, Ðe, leuerd god, to wurðinge. Ibid. 3787 Of ðo Reklefates for wurðing, Woren mad..Corunes. a1300Fall & Passion 5 in E.E.P. (1862) 13 Þat ic mote wiþ moch worþing..to ȝov schow is vp-rising. c1315Shoreham iii. 182 As al holy cherche þe tekþ, Þou make þyne worþynge.
b. worthing day, Sunday; worthing-night, ? Sunday night.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 9 Þat wes heore sunedei and bet heo heolden heore wurðing dei þene we doð. a1327Adam Davy's Dreams 87 Me met a sweuene, on worþing-niȝth Of þat ilche derworþe kniȝth.
▪ II. † ˈworthing2 Obs.
[app. f. ME. wurþ worth a. Cf. gooding vbl. n.]
Dung; manure. Also fig., moral corruption or filth.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 85 Þet smal chef þet flid ford mid þe winde bicumeð wurþinge. a1200St. Marher. 3 Ne lettu neauer þe unhwiht warpen hire i wurðinge. c1230Hali Meid. 13 Þe ilke sari wrecches þe i þe fule wurðinge vnwedde waleweð..þeos walewið i wurðinge, & forrotieð þrin.
c1582in T. West Antiq. Furness (1774) App. viii. 3 D 4, Five hundred fudder, or wayne load, alias coupe load, of wurthinge or dung. 1591Broomfleet Manor Roll (MS.), Item, that Thomas Waile remove his swynestye..that the worthing or fylth theirof do not corrupt the water. 1592in Lancs. Q. Sess. Rec. (Chetham Soc.) I. 54 Eighte wayne lodes of worthinge or dounge. 1605Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 161, xxj lood of worthing for barlye..; xv loodes of worthinge, with good store of lyme in yt.
attrib.1688Holme Armoury iii. 337/1 A Worthing Forke, or a Dung Fork. 1876E. Leigh Cheshire Gloss., Wording hook, dungfork. |