n. 小软团, 小软块, 一卷, 填料, 大量

vt. 揉成一团, 填塞

[经] 一叠钞票, 金钱

Wad \Wad\, n. [See {Woad}.]
Woad. [Obs.]


Wad \Wad\, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding,
Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. {Wadmol}.]
1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
--Holland.

2. 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.

3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance,
used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture,
padding a garment, etc.

{Wed hook}, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for
removing the wad from a gun.


Wad \Wad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wadding}.]
1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad
tow or cotton.

2. 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 \Wad\, Wadd \Wadd\, n. (Min.)
(a) 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.
(b) Plumbago, or black lead.

Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[=a]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid,
OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written
also {wad}, and {wade}.]
1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ({Isatis
tinctoria}) of the family {Cruciferae} (syn.
{Brassicaceae}). It was formerly cultivated for the blue
coloring matter derived from its leaves. See {isatin}.

2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the
powdered and fermented leaves of the {Isatis tinctoria}.
It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with
indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry
figures. --Milton.

{Wild woad} (Bot.), the weld ({Reseda luteola}). See {Weld}.


{Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad.