wordy1 (werdi)

[ A wordy orator... making a magnificent speech to the people, full of vain promises. Steele , Spectator, No. 448. 2. Full of words; wordish. We need not lavish hours in wordy periods. Philips, The Briton. The wordy variance of domestic life; The tyrant husband, the retorting wife. Crabbe, Works, I. 159. 3. Consisting of words; verbal. A silent, but amused spectator of this wordy combat. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, iv. wordy2t, a. An obsolete Scotch form of worthy. worel (wor). Preterit of wear1. wore't, v. An obsolete variant of were. See was.