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   Wad (?), n. [See Woad.] Woad.  [Obs.]
   
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   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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   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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    Wad, 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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   Woad (?), n. [OE. wod, AS. wād; 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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