woad : Idioms & Phrases

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dyer's woad

  • noun European biennial formerly grown for the blue coloring matter yielded by its leaves
    Isatis tinctoria.
WordNet

Wild woad

  • (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld.
Webster 1913

Woad mill

  • a mill grinding and preparing woad.
Webster 1913

woad-waxen

Woad"-wax`en noun
Etymology
Cf. Wood-wax.
Definitions
  1. (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, and wood-waxen.
Webster 1913