Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WORT, n. [Sax. wyrt; G. wurz; Sw. ort; Dan. urt; Fr. vert, verd; from the root of L. vireo, to grow; viridis, green.]

1. A plant; an herb; now used chiefly or wholly in compounds; as in mugwort, liverwort, spleenwort.
2. A plant of the cabbage kind.
3. New beer unfermented, or in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt. – Bacon. Cyc.