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Wad
n.
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Woad.
Wad
n.
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A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
Wad
n.
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Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
Wad
n.
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A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
Waded
imp. & p. p.
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Wadding
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Wad
v. t.
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To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
Wad
v. t.
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To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
Wad
n.
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Alt. of Wadd
Wadd
n.
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An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
Wadd
n.
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Plumbago, or black lead.
Wadding
n.
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A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
Wadding
n.
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Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
Waddling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Waddle
v. i.
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To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
Waddle
v. t.
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To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
Waddler
n.
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One who, or that which, waddles.
Waddlingly
adv.
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In a waddling manner.
Wade
n.
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Woad.
Waded
imp. & p. p.
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Wading
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Wade
v. i.
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To go; to move forward.
Wade
v. i.
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To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
Wade
v. i.
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Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
Wade
v. t.
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To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
Wade
n.
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The act of wading.
Wader
n.
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One who, or that which, wades.
Wader
n.
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Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
Wading
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a. & n. from Wade, v.
Wadmol
n.
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A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes.