Begbrook.
_Worth_ (Vol. vii., p. 584.).--At one time, and in one locality, this word
seems to have denoted manure; as appears by the following preamble to the
statute 7 Jac. I. cap. 18.:
"Whereas the sea-sand, by long triall and experience, hath bin found to
be very profitable for the bettering of land, and especially for the
increase of corne and tillage, within the counties of Devon and
Cornwall, where the inhabitants have not commonly used any other
_worth_, for the bettering of their arable grounds and pastures."