Wad

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wad \Wad\, n. [See {Woad}.]
     Woad. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wad \Wad\, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding,
     Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. {Wadmol}.]
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     1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
        --Holland.
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     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.
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     3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance,
        used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture,
        padding a garment, etc.
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     {Wed hook}, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for
        removing the wad from a gun.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wad \Wad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wadding}.]
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     1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad
        tow or cotton.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]
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     1. (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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     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.
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              Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry
              figures.                              --Milton.
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     {Wild woad} (Bot.), the weld ({Reseda luteola}). See {Weld}.
        
  
     {Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]
       [also: {wadding}, {wadded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "wad":
     accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate,
     aggregation, amassment, bankroll, batch, block, bomb, boodle, brim,
     bulk, bundle, ceil, charge, chock, chunk, clamp, clod, clump,
     compress, congeries, congest, conglobation, conglomerate,
     conglomeration, considerable, cram, crowd, crush, cumulation, deal,
     ensphere, face, feather, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up,
     freight, fur, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobs, good deal,
     good sum, great deal, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, hunch, hunk,
     inlay, interline, jam, jam-pack, jillion, lade, large sum,
     lashings, line, load, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, mass, mess,
     millions, mint, mint of money, nip, nugget, oodles, overfill, pack,
     packet, pad, pat, peck, pile, piles, pinch, pot, potful,
     power of money, press, pretty penny, quantity, quite a little,
     raft, rafts, ram in, roll, satiate, saturate, scads, shoestring,
     sight, slew, slews, snowball, spate, squeeze, stack, stacks,
     stockpile, stuff, supercharge, surfeit, thousands, tidy sum,
     tighten, top off, tweak, wad up, wads, wainscot, weight,
     whole slew