| 单词 | garden woad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarden woad a. A flowering plant, Isatis tinctoria (family Brassicaceae), having multiple erect stems, arising from a basal rosette of leaves, and clusters of tiny yellow flowers, native to the Caucasus and western and central Asia, and formerly much cultivated, esp. in France, for the indigo blue dye obtained from the leaves (see sense 2a). Also garden woad.Also called dyer's weed (see first element), glastum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > woad woadeOE ash of Jerusalem1548 glastum?c1550 pastel1578 straw woad1612 dyer's woad1860 dyer's weed1866 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > woad woadeOE woadOE eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxviii. 94 Dolhsealf, genim wades croppan & netelan, eac gecnuwa wel. OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 311 Sandix, wad [c1225 Worcester wod]. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 556/14 Sandix, i. waisde, i. wod. a1350 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 123 [Gaisdo] wolde..wode. a1425 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 227 [Sandix maior] wode. 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Isatis Uulgus herbam appellat wad. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iijv Glastum is called..in english wad, & not Ode as some corrupters of the englishe tonge do nikename it. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 40 The Garden Woade [L. glastum..satiuum] whiche Dyars use, hath leaues lyke Plantayne, but something thicker. 1585 Proclam. Elizabeth I against Sowing of Woade 14 Oct. (single sheet) That no maner of person or persons..shal..breake vp..any maner of grounde..for the..purpose to sowe or plant woade in. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiii. xiii. 484 These Azurs, receive first a dye, and are boiled with a certaine hearbe..called Oad [Fr. il les faut cuire auec leur herbe; L. in sua coquitur herba], the colour and juice whereof Azur is apt to drinke in and receive. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xv. 93 Woad, which affords a foggy food that over-lades the Bees. 1739 S. Trowell New Treat. Husbandry 33 Of Woad or Wade, the best Land for it. 1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Bedfordshire Woad, a plant used by dyers, is also cultivated here. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 77 A long and explicit covenant [in a lease] against growing pernicious weeds, such as flax, hemp, woad. 1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xxxv. 555 Indigo, which is obtained from the indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria ), and from woad (Isatis tinctoria ), has been known for thousands of years as a valuable blue dye. 1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone (1986) v. 292 It gave him particular pleasure to make the acquaintance of woad, the isatis tinctoria , from the juice of which a dark blue could be extracted. 2001 Financial Times 17 May 17 Woad looks like spinach or sugar beet, with green leaves sprouting upwards from a central crown. < as lemmas |
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