Search the Dictionary

See Woe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

a tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood- waxen.

Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded, winter- clad in skins." Tennyson.

See Weld.

See Wabble.

Mad. See Wood, a. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

A geld, or payment, for wood. Burrill.

A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

sery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. Milton. [They] weep each other's woe. Pope.

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel.

In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

Woeful. [Obs.] Langhorne.

Wake.

See 2d Will. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A wood; a forest.

imp. of Will. See Would.

ly allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.