,
_precious
object, valuable_: dat.
Beowulf
acc.
sg.
, 455, 1563, 1682,
2718, 2775; gen.
sg.
ge-weorces, 2712.
Comp.
: ǣr-, fyrn-, gūð-, hond-,
nīð-ge-weorc.
--2) _fortification, rampart_: in comp.
land-geweorc, 939.
weorce, adj.
, _painful, bitter_: nom.
sg.
, 1419.
weorð, st.
n.
,
_precious
object, valuable_: dat.
sg.
weorðe, 2497.
weorð, adj.
, _dear, precious_: nom.
sg.
weorð Denum æðeling (_the atheling
dear to the Danes_, Bēowulf), 1815; compar.
nom.
sg.
þæt hē syððan wæs .
.
.
māðme þȳ weorðra (_more honored from the jewel_), 1903; cf.
wyrðe.
weorðan, st.
v.
