woad-waxen
11wood-wash — Woad waxen Woad wax en, n. [Cf. {Wood wax}.] (Bot.) 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},… …
12wood-wax — Woad waxen Woad wax en, n. [Cf. {Wood wax}.] (Bot.) 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},… …
13Genista tinctoria — Dyer s Broom Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …
14wood-wax — n.; (also wood waxen) Weld, woad, dyer s weed, dyer s broom, woad waxen (Genista tinctoria) …
15wax — 1. noun /wæks/ a) Beeswax. ‘Thats him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, wont that put him in a wax!’ b) Earwax. Syn: beeswax, cerumen, earwax, polish …
16Kendal — green Ken dal green , or Kendal Ken dal A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). [1913 Webster] How couldst thou know these men …
17Kendal green — Ken dal green , or Kendal Ken dal A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). [1913 Webster] How couldst thou know these men in… …
18woadwaxen — /wohd wak seuhn/, n. an ornamental Eurasian shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose flowers yield a yellow dye formerly used with woad to make a permanent green dye. Also, woodwaxen. Also called dyer s broom, dyer s greenweed, dyer s greenwood. [1325 75; …
19woadwaxen — noun small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental • Syn: ↑woodwaxen, ↑dyer s greenweed, ↑dyer s broom, ↑dyeweed, ↑greenweed, ↑whin,… …
20Sad — (s[a^]d), a. [Compar. {Sadder} (s[a^]d d[ e]r); superl. {Saddest}.] [OE. sad sated, tired, satisfied, firm, steadfast, AS. s[ae]d satisfied, sated; akin to D. zat, OS. sad, G. satt, OHG. sat, Icel. sa[eth]r, saddr, Goth. sa[thorn]s, Lith. sotus,… …
