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Woad (medicine)


woad


1. <botany> An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue colouring matter derived from its leaves.

2. A blue dyestuff, or colouring 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 It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.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.

<botany>" (Milton) Wild woad, the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld. Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.

Origin: OE. Wod, AS. Wad; akin to D. Weede, G. Waid, OHG. Weit, Dan. Vaid, veid, Sw. Veide, L. Vitrum

Alternative forms: wad, and wade.

Source: Websters Dictionary