WAD : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: WAD	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for WAD
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wad n a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter" (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" Synonym(s): batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad a wad of something chewable as tobacco Synonym(s): chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad v compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack, bundle, wad, compact] crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" Synonym(s): jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wad \Wad\, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. {Wadmol}.] 1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. --Holland. 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. 3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. {Wed hook}, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wad \Wad\, n. [See {Woad}.] Woad. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wad \Wad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wadding}.] 1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wad \Wad\, Wadd \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[be]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also {wad}, and {wade}.] 1. (Bot.) 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.