Worth, a.
 1. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.  [Obs.]
    It was not worth to make it wise.   --Chaucer.
 2. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
    A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats.   --Shak.
    All our doings without charity are nothing worth.   --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
    If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me.   --Beattie.
 3. Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
    To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.   --Milton.
    This is life indeed, life worth preserving.   --Addison.
 4. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
    At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns.   --Addison.
 Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n.