A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Forworthin, p.p. Also: forwirdin. [ME. forworthyn (c 1440), forwurþen (c 1200), OE. forworden, p.p. of forweorðan.] Rendered useless or worthless; deformed, shapeless.a1400 Leg. S. xl. 672.
Thai tuk vpe that for-worthine wycht, & brocht [it], quhar sancte Niniane lay c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 105.
Forworthin [M. forwirdin] fule, of all the warld reffuse Ib. 193.
Forworthin [M. forwirdin] wirling 1513 Doug. viii. iv. 21.
Ȝon was a cavern … in ald dayis, … A grisly den and ane forworthyn gap
