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ng a garment, etc. Wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.

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.

See Waddy.

A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.

ry fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

One who, or that which, waddles.

In a waddling manner.

To attack or beat with a waddy.

An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies.

to move forward. [Obs.] When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. Chaucer. Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. Old Play.

One who, or that which, wades.

a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. (Zoöl.) See Wader, 2.

th, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes. [Spelled also wadmal, wadmeal, wadmoll, wadmel, etc.] Beck (Draper's Dict.). Sir W. Scott.

A kind of pledge or mortgage. [Written also wadsett.]

One who holds by a wadset.

A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

A traveler.

In these days; at the present time. What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays Garrick.

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Prov. Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. Blount.

Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.