1. noun /ˈwʊs.tɪd,ˈwʊs.tɪd,ˈwɝ.stɪd/
a) Yarn made from long strands of wool.
"Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others," said Mrs. Garth She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted, knitting her brow at it with a grand air.
He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge an ornament a charm a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?
2. adjective /ˈwʊs.tɪd,ˈwʊs.tɪd,ˈwɝ.stɪd/
Defeated, overcome.
Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.
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