Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wad"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wad \Wad\, n. [See {Woad}.]
Woad. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wad \Wad\, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding,
Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. {Wadmol}.]
1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
--Holland.
2. Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible
material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope
yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or
for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish
or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a
dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance,
used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture,
padding a garment, etc.
{Wed hook}, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for
removing the wad from a gun.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wad \Wad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wadding}.]
1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad
tow or cotton.
2. To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to
stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like
cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wad \Wad\, Wadd \Wadd\, n. (Min.)
(a) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different
oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often
silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There
are several varieties.
(b) Plumbago, or black lead.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.]
1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ({Isatis
tinctoria}). It was formerly cultivated for the blue
coloring matter derived from its leaves.
2. 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is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wad
n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},
{mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot},
{quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack},
{tidy sum}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
2: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: {chew}, {chaw},
{cud}, {quid}, {plug}]
v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: {pack},
{bundle}, {compact}]
2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
{jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {cram}, {pack}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.