Woad is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WOAD in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a broad-leafed plant yielding a blue dye
• 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.
• dye obtained from the woad plant, now superseded by synthetic products.
• blue dye obtained from a plant
• An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
• 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 It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
• a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant
• any of several herbs of the genus Isatis

Words related to WOAD

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Words that contain WOAD

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How to use WOAD in a sentence

• Several of these have literatures and traditions that extend back before the days when the Britons painted themselves with woad.
• The ancient Briton must have vied with his neighbor in different designs with the woad plant.
• There are so many opportunities for it to go wrong, and to be able to set a woad vat successfully will go far to make a man a successful indigo dyer.
• The following method of setting a woad vat may be adopted.
• While depending solely on chemical action for its preparation and use, it is freer from those peculiar defects to which organic vats, like the woad vats, are liable.
• This vat ferments in much the same way as the woad vat, and presents the same general appearances.
• One advantage it possesses over the woad and potash vats is that it is the best for working on a small scale, but the modern zinc reduction vats run it very close in this respect.
• In this Iland by the report of the inhabitants, there groweth certaine greene woad, which by their speeches is faire better then the woad of S.
• The two plants Weld and Woad from the similarity of names are frequently confounded with each other, and some of the best agricultural writers have fallen into this error.

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