wort

noun4

1. •
   Also worts: a liquid extracted from mash (ground malt or some other grain soaked in hot water), which is then fermented to make beer, or fermented and distilled to make a malt liquor such as whisky.

   • Nay then tvvo treyes, an if you grovv so nice, / Methegline, VVort, and Malmsey; […] — 1595
2. •
   Chiefly in the plural: a plant of the genus Brassica used as a vegetable; a brassica; especially, a cabbage (Brassica oleracea).

   • VVhy (say they in scorne and contempt of povertie) here is the stem of a vvoort so vvell grovvne, here is a cabbage so thriven and fed, that a poore mans boord vvill not hold it. — 1601
3. •
   A non-vascular plant growing on land from the division Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts) or Marchantiophyta (liverworts); an anthocerotophyte or marchantiophyte.
4. •
   (no longer used) Now chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine.

   • [H]e [a poor person] drinks vvater, and liue's of vvort leaues, pulse, like a hog, or scraps like a dog, […] — 1621