*wold*

n. [ Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country. ] An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Threshold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. völlr, a field, and probably to Gr. &unr_; a grove, Skr. vā&unr_;a a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A wood; a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. [ 1913 Webster ]

And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wind that beats the mountain, blows
More softly round the open wold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Weld. [ 1913 Webster ]