English-Thai Dictionary
woad
N พืช ของ ยุโรป ซึ่ง ใช้ใบ นำมา สกัด เอา สีน้ำเงิน ได้ ชื่อ ละติน คือ Isatis Inctorai phud-kong-yu-rob-sueng-chai-bai-nam-ma-sa-kad
woaded
A ที่ ย้อม สีน้ำเงิน โดย ใช้ สี
woadwaxen
N พืช ไม้พุ่ม และ ไม้ประดับ พวก Genista tinctoria
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
WOAD
n.[G.] A plant of the genus Isatis, cultivated for the use of dyers. The woad blue is a very deep blue, and is the base of many other colors or shades of color. Woad is first bruised in a mill, and then made into balls. It grows wild in France and along the coasts of the Baltic. The term woad is applied to the Reseda, weld or wold, and to the Genista tinctoria or dyers broom.
WOAD-MILL
n.A mill for bruising and preparing woad.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
WOAD
Woad, n. Etym: [OE. wod, AS. wad; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum. ] [Written also wad, and wade. ]
1. (Bot. )
Defn: An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria ). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
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 It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. 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.
WOADED
WOADED Woad "ed, a.
Defn: Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded, winter- clad in skins." Tennyson.
WOAD-WAXEN
Woad "-wax `en, n. Etym: [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot. )
Defn: A leguminous plant (Genista 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
woad
woad |wōd woʊd | ▶noun a yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family. It was formerly grown as a source of blue dye, which was extracted from the leaves after they had been dried, powdered, and fermented. [Isatis tinctoria, family Brassicaceae. ] • the dye obtained from this plant, now superseded by synthetic products. ORIGIN Old English wād, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wede and German Waid .
Oxford Dictionary
woad
woad |wəʊd | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family. It was formerly widely grown in Britain as a source of blue dye, which was extracted from the leaves after they had been dried, powdered, and fermented. ●Isatis tinctoria, family Cruciferae. • the dye obtained from this plant, now superseded by synthetic products. ORIGIN Old English wād, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wede and German Waid .
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