Crossword clues for woad
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). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. See isatin.
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A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures.
--Milton.Wild woad (Bot.), the weld ( Reseda luteola). See Weld.
Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wad "woad," also the blue dye made from its leaves, from Proto-Germanic *waido- (cognates: Danish vaid, Old Frisian wed, Middle Dutch wede, Dutch wede, Old High German weit, German Waid "woad"), perhaps cognate with Latin vitrium "glass" (see vitreous). Formerly much cultivated; since superseded by indigo. French guède, Italian guado are Germanic loan-words.
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.
WordNet
n. a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant
any of several herbs of the genus Isatis
Wikipedia
WOAD (1300 AM) is a radio station licensed to Jackson with an urban gospel format. WOAD is owned by Alpha Media through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Along with five other sister stations, its studios are located in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, while the transmitter tower is in the northside of Jackson.
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, Mississippi, United States, which held the call sign WOAD-FM from January 2004 to July 2009
Woad may refer to:
- Isatis tinctoria, a flowering plant also known as glastum.
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.