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tue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win or lose. Byron. -- Worth"less*ly, adv. -- Worth"less*ness, n.

merly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

erty or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.

n of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son (or man) of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12.

A worthless fellow; a bezonian. [Obs.]

Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

on'st. Shak. There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. Trumbull. To blazon his own worthless name. Cowper.

A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [Slang]

blow upon. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of…

Stale; worthless.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.

A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke. Shak. Black canker. See under Black.

Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. [Obs.] "Old feeble carrions." Shak.

Some worthless catchpenny thing.

Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. The chaff and ruin of the times. Shak.

Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill.