English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
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walk (through relatively shallow water)
<verb.motion> Can we wade across the river to the other side? Wade the pond
Wade \Wade\, v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded ?he rivers and swamps.
Wade \Wade\, n. The act of wading. [Colloq.]
Wade \Wade\, n. Woad. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
Wade \Wade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wading}.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va?a, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. {Evade}, {Invade}, {Pervade}, {Waddle}.] 1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.]
When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. --Chaucer.
Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. --Old Play.
2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. --Milton.
3. 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.
And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. --Dryden.
The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. --Davenant.
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 It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.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.
A phone representative neglected to tell Kathryn Lippert of Pittsburgh that she needed to file a claim to get a widow's benefit, and she said it took five months to wade through red tape before the problem was solved.
Metzenbaum acknowledged he's up against a "political tidal wave," but said he felt obliged to wade in. "I would hope the Congress would have backbone and will not try to change the Bill of Rights," he said.
"I'd hoped we'd wade through this difficult time and come out together," she says.
Health officials have estimated that 40 million gallons of raw sewage a day are being dumped into stagnating floodwaters where children swim for fun and adults wade to food markets and relief centers.
However, Beyond the Bottom Line is certainly a readable way to wade through financial issues pegged to real examples in a practical way.
For intrepid readers willing to wade through complex medical jargon, the Merck Manual and Physicians' Desk Reference are available in most bookstores.
Mr. Greenspan was in government at that time, serving as an economic adviser to President Ford, and he is determined not to wade through that swamp again.
The Soviet leader also has been known to wade into crowds of protesters to carry on political discourse _ and there will be plenty of opportunities for that if he chooses to do so.
Geoffrey Goodfellow, who dropped out of high school back in the 1970s to manage a computer network at a California research firm, says: "Old network hands have started to turn off the network because they don't have time to wade through the muck."
He does not stint detailing the madness and scandal, and readers need not worry about having to wade through a lot of conventional art history.
"Don't give them too much clutter to wade through.
Most wade across the Rio Grande, where clothes, letters to God and even an unused airline ticket can be found on the grassy banks, left behind in haste or happiness.
Some stocks may be delayed in opening as Big Board specialists wade through the flood of orders.
Those brave enough to wade into controversial waters may soon have an innovative new way to invest.