Hypertext Webster Gateway: "weald"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Weald \Weald\, n. [AS. See {Wold}.]
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open
country; -- often used in place names.
Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And
heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she
fled. --Tennyson.
{Weald clay} (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden
strata. See {Wealden}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
weald
n : (Brit) an area of open or forested country
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