wer1t

[Also were; ME. wer, were, Me hwet is he thes were that tu art to iweddet? Life of St. Julian a (E. E. T. S.), 1. 81. Ne lipne no wif to hire were , ne were to his wyne. Old Eng . Homilies (E. E. T. S.), 1st ser. Moral Ode, 1. 32. 2. Wergild. Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were. Bosworth , Anglo-Saxon Dict. Wer [in ancient English criminal law) was a species of fine, a price set upon a man according to his rank in life. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, I. 57. wer2t, n. An obsolete form of weir . wer3, pron . A dialectal form of our1 . werblet, v. and n. An old form of warble1 . wercht, v. and n . An old form of work1 . werche, a . Same as wersh.