To befall; betide, To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases, verb_ obsolete, except in set phrases To be, become, betide, adjective_ Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for, Deserving of, Equal in value to something specified, noun_ A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means, That which one is worth; possessions; substance; wealth; riches, Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness

A woman joined to another person in marriage; a female spouse, A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like, A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse

By way of, By means of, By (means of); using (a medium), noun_ A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.), electronics A small hole in a printed-circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers, A road or way

The act, manner, or amount of using; use, The way in which words or phrases are actually used, spoken, or written in a speech community, Established or customary mode of employing a particular word, phrase, or construction; current locution

Any of various similar but unrelated fishes, such as the trout-perch, With a qualifying word, one of several fishes, not of the family Salmonidæ, resembling or suggesting a trout. See phrases below, Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once, verb_ To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly

To that extent; by that much. Used before a comparative, By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives, With a comparative or more and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives, intransitive verb_ obsolete See thee, definite article_ Used before singular or plural nouns and noun phrases that denote particular, specified persons or things, Used to indicate uniqueness., Used before the plural form of a numeral denoting a specific decade of a century or of a lifespan

A name of certain plants of other genera. See the phrases below, A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage, any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb, adjective_ having wisdom that comes with age and experience, having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment, Proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment

Procedure or routine characterized by regularly recurring elements, activities, or factors, The pattern of development produced in a literary or dramatic work by repetition of elements such as words, phrases, incidents, themes, images, and symbols, In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like

Preterit and past participle of have, and as an auxiliary making pluperfect tense-phrases, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of have, auxiliary As past subjunctive_ ?would have?, auxiliary Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle)

The letter n, half the width of an em, A common adverbial or prepositional prefix, representing Latin in-, meaning primarily ?in? or ?into?, abbreviation_ English, preposition_ Used in various phrases borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below)