derth

Obsolete spelling of dearth.

Noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of dearth.
    • And shee coy lookes: so dainty, they say, maketh derth - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: