What is "woe worth"

Woe \Woe\, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. & OHG. w[=e], G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve, Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. ?. [root]128. Cf. Wail.]

1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

   Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
   --Milton.

   [They] weep each other's woe.
   --Pope.

2. A curse; a malediction.

   Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
   --South.

   Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. `` Woe is me! for I am undone.''
   --Isa. vi. 5.

   O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life].
   --Chaucer.

   Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!
   --Isa. xlv. 9.

   Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, v. i.

   Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!
   --Sir W. Scott.