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   Wo (?), n. & a. See Woe.  [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   Woe (?), n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. wā, interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. & OHG. wē, G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve, Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. . √128.  Cf. Wail.] [Formerly written also wo.]
   
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   1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
   
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   Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,
   
   Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. Milton.
   
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   [They] weep each other's woe. Pope.
   
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   2. A curse; a malediction.
   
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   Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice? South.
   
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   ☞ Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. “ Woe is me! for I am undone.”  Isa. vi. 5.
   
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   O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. Chaucer.
   
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   Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Isa. xlv. 9.
   
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   Woe worth, Woe be to.  See Worth, v. i.
   
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   Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day,
   
   That costs thy life, my gallant gray! Sir W. Scott.
   
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