a. Obs. [? f. stem of WORE v.1 + -i, -Y1. (Connection with OE. wáriʓ is improbable.)] ‘Troubled,’ disturbed, turbid.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 29. Hu maht þu iseon þine sceadewe in worie watere.
a. 1200. Moral Ode, 142, in O. E. Hom., I. 169. Betere is wori water drunch þen atter meind mid wine.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 386. Haue euer schir heorte þus, & do al þet tu wilt. Haue wori heorte & al þe sit vuele.
c. 1290. St. Brendan, 260, in S. Eng. Leg., 226. Twey faire wellene, þat on was suyþe cler, And sumdel wori … þat oþer was.
