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Herb or blue dye
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woad
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WOAD or Woad may refer to: Woad , the common name of the flowering plant Isatis tinctoria in the family Brassicaceae WOAD (AM) , a radio station (1300 AM) licensed to Jackson, Mississippi, United States WZNO , a radio station (105.9 FM) licensed to Pickens, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[=a]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also wad , and wade .] (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ( Isatis tinctoria ) of the family Cruciferae (syn. Brassicaceae ). ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant any of several herbs of the genus Isatis
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The plant (taxlink Isatis tinctoria species noshow=1). 2 The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant. vb. 1 To plant or cultivate woad. 2 To dye with woad.
Usage examples of woad.
Two precision arrow shots from Tristran and Bors brought down a pair of Woads fighting side by side.
Before the guard could respond, Bors and Tristran peeled off, looking to kill more Woads.
As legionnaires continued to battle Woads on the back of the carriage, Tristran and Bors unleashed arrow after arrow into the fray.
Their natural instinct was to tread quietly and stealthily in pursuit of their quarry, though, as they were simply walking through a recorded Informational Illusion, they could as easily have been wearing euphoniums and woad for all the notice their quarry would have taken of them.
Below it, the pigments gleamed in their jars--ochre, saffron, woad, kobold, beet, reseda, calcimine, koal-absolute potentiality.
Two precision arrow shots from Tristran and Bors brought down a pair of Woads fighting side by side.
As legionnaires continued to battle Woads on the back of the carriage, Tristran and Bors unleashed arrow after arrow into the fray.
The coloring agent is insoluble in water, and the dyebath is a solution of wood ash and rotten urine in which the woad has been fermented.
This vat ferments in much the same way as the woad vat, and presents the same general appearances.
While depending solely on chemical action for its preparation and use, it is freer from those peculiar defects to which organic vats, like the woad vats, are liable.
It is like the potash vat, easier to manage than the woad vat, as with all the woad vats it is necessary after working them for a day to replenish them with a little indigo, soda, or potash, as the case may be, and a little bran.
Below it, the pigments gleamed in their jars--ochre, saffron, woad, kobold, beet, reseda, calcimine, koal-absolute potentiality.
The Barghast, he saw, had just finished the deal and was setting down the deck in the table's centre, revealing as he did so the endless blue woad tattooing on his bared arm, the spiral patterns marred here and there by white scars.
He knew something of the clan markings among the Barghast, how each hunter group was identified through their woad tattooing.
As tonight was a ceremonial occasion, he wore a coat of aurochs hide dyed blue with woad, buttoned and cinched with hammered gold.