noun
definition
The plant Isatis tinctoria.
definition
The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant.
verb
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To plant or cultivate woad.
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To dye with woad.
Examples of woad in a Sentence
The Frome process used woad, a blue dye associated with Brits since Caesar visited.
Of plants used for dyeing, the principal are bastard saffron, madder, woad and the indigo plant.
Burnett's garments in Well Fashioned have been hand dyed using natural indigo, derived from the woad plant.
Indian indigo prevailed slowly over woad based on its better dyeing properties and deeper color.
Brandishing spears, swords, or stolen swords, their skin patterned with blue woad to frighten thei enemy.
The constant use of chicory for coffee, and of woad for indigo, was apt to produce a reaction in favour of a humdrum peaceful policy; and yet, by a recent imperial decree, Frenchmen had the prospect of seeing the use of the new and imperfectly made beet sugar enforced from the 1st of January 1813, after which date all cane sugar was excluded as being of British origin.
Isatis - A small group of perennials, with little garden value; the Dyers Woad, a native plant (Isatis tinctoria) is interesting as yielding the blue dye with which the ancient Britons painted their bodies.
Of dye-stuffs there are produced henna (Lawsonia iijermis) principally grown at Khabis near Kermn, woad and madder; a small quantity of indigo is grown near Dizfu and Shushter.
The only industrial plants were flax and the dye-plants, chief among which were woad and rud, roid (a kind of bed-straw?).