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wád

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
wád, es; n.
Woad, a plant much used for dyeing, which circumstance may account for the appearance of the word as a gloss to some of the following Latin words
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  • Ðis wád

    hic sandyx,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 69; Zup. 72, 14.
  • Wyrt oððe wád

    sandix

    (the passage to which this gloss belongs is Vergil
      Eclogae, iv. 45, quoted by Aldhelm), Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 33.
  • Wád

    sandix,

    i.
      32, 6: 68, 70: 79, 42.
  • Waad

    fucus,

      32, 7.
  • Dolhsealf. Genim wádes croppan,

      Lchdm. ii. 94, 11.
  • Of wáde ł hǽwenre deáge ex hyacintho (cf. wáde

    iacincto,

    Anglia xiii.
      29, 52.
  • Cf.

    O. H. Ger. wenín iacinctus ),

      Hpt. Gl. 431, 26.
  • Wið bryne, wád wyl on buteran, smire mid, Lchdm. ii. 132, 1,

    and see

    i.
      174, 1-5.
  • Man mæg on hærfeste wád spittan, Anglia ix. 261, 16. ¶ the growth of woad seems marked by the occurrence of the word in such forms as

    wád-beorh, wád-denu, wád-lond

    in charters :-- Of ðære díc on wádbeorgas; of wádbeorgan,
      Cod. Dip, Kmbl., iii. 77, 15.
  • Æt wádbeorhe,

      82, 29.
  • On wádbeorh; of wádbeorhge,

      232, 36.
  • On wáddene; andlong wáddene, vi. 137, 12.
  • Ðæt wádlond, iii. 390, 17: 381, 5.
Etymology
[O. Frs. wéd: O. H. Ger. weit sandix.]
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v.  waad.
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