n. & a. See Woe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
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
n. See Weld. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. See Wabble. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Wood. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. wōd. ] Mad. See Wood, a. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Wood, and Geld. ] (O. Eng. Law) A geld, or payment, for wood. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. Wōden; akin to OS. Wōdan, OHG. Wuotan, Icel. Oðinn, and probably to E. wood, a. Cf. Wednesday. ] (Northern Myth.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin. [ 1913 Webster ]
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