wade

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: WadeVirginia Wade

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Noun (1)

  1. English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)Synonyms: WadeVirginia Wade

Verb (1)

  1. walk (through relatively shallow water)“Can we wade across the river to the other side?”“Wade the pond”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Wade \Wade\, v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded ?he rivers and swamps. [1913 Webster]
Wade \Wade\, n. Woad. [Obs.] --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
Wade \Wade\, n. The act of wading. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Wade \Wade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wading.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va?a, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.] [1913 Webster]

1.To go; to move forward. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
Forbear, and wade no further in this speech.— Old Play.[1913 Webster]

2.To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. [1913 Webster]

So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed ?lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly ?inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book. [1913 Webster]

And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.— Davenant.[1913 Webster]
Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[=a]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also wad, and wade.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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 It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. [1913 Webster]

Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld.

Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad. [1913 Webster]

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