单词 | wild woad |
释义 | > as lemmaswild woad b. More fully wild woad. A flowering plant, Reseda luteola (family Resedaceae), having single erect stems, arising from a basal rosette of leaves, and tiny yellow-green flowers on long racemes, native to Eurasia, and formerly much cultivated for the intense yellow dye obtained from the plant. Cf. weld n.1 a. Now rare. Also called dyer's rocket, dyer's weed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > weld waldOE weldc1374 wild woada1425 wolda1500 base rocket1578 yellow-weed1597 weld seed1765 wild mignonette1861 a1425 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 227 [Sandix minor] wyld wode. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xlvi. 66 There be two sortes of Woad: the one is of the garden... The other is wilde Woad. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 678 The Wilde woad both drunke and applied, helpeth the milt. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Guesde sauvage, wild woad, which growes of it selfe in grounds wherein th' other hath beene sowne; and differs not much from it but in staulke. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. ii. 232 The cods of the wild woad, (Glasti Sylvestris) together with the Seeds therein contain'd. 1710 W. Salmon Botanologia II. Index Latinus Isatis agria, Wild Woad. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 445 Reseda Luteola..Wild Woad. Dyers-weed. 1821 J. Clare Cowper Green in Village Minstrel I. 114 Thy wild-woad on each road we see. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Kingdom of Italy: Official Descr. Catal. 284 The woad (Reseda luteola) is a little used for dyeing skins which have been steeped in sumach. a1864 J. Clare Midsummer Cushion (1990) 26 Tall wild woad that lifts its spirey tops By stone pits. 1893 M. H. A. Stapleton Three Oxfordshire Parishes 315 The land was laid down in woad (Reseda luteola), which was used for yellow dye. 1913 N. L. Britton & A. Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S., Canada & Brit. Possessions (ed. 2) II. 200 Reseda Luteola L. Dyer's Rocket. Yellow-weed... Wild woad. 2004 P. Bouet et al. Bayeux Tapestry 91 Mustard yellow (woad: Reseda luteola). < as lemmas |
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