See wort in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "wort",
"name": "head"
},
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"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "wort (uncountable)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Wort (as in brewing) or an analogous mixture (e.g. used for mead)"
],
"links": [
[
"Wort",
"wort#English"
]
],
"senseid": [
"enm:brewing wort"
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwurt/"
}
],
"word": "wort"
}
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"msg": "''A plant (not including trees, '[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
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"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "wort",
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}
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