woad UK /wəʊd/US /woʊd/noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •The plant Isatis tinctoria.Woad is one of those plants which yield the deep blue colouring matter so greatly valued in the arts — Indigo. — 1840 •The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.But in the middle of the sixteenth century indigo was introduced from the East Indies: and in the seventeenth century its use became extended, and supplanted that of woad. — 1856 verb2 •To dye with woad.This wool, when scowered, weighed 50 lbs.; when woaded blue, and picked, 48 lbs. — 1809 •To plant or cultivate woad.Such land was usually woaded for two, three or four years and then corned,[…]. — 1968 formswoaded · woading · woads
