n. [ OE. wod, AS. wād; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum. ]
Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wild woad (Bot.),
Woad mill,
a. Colored or stained with woad. “Man tattoed or woaded, winter-clad in skins.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. Wood-wax. ] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also