- Cost-effectiveness - Merit - Value - To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the
phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb
is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative.
Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases. - Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. - Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to
be exchanged for. - Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a
good sense.