Woad is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 25 anagrams from letters in woad (adow).
before 1000; Middle English wode, Old English wād (cognate with German Waid); akin to French guède, Medieval Latin waizda Germanic
The chief Trade of this Town is in woad, of which they have three sorts.
The same "woad" which was used by the Britons to paint themselves with.
When woad is now used it is always in combination with indigo, to improve the colour.
Many tribes dyed their skin with a colour extracted from the leaf of the woad.
In the fairies who dress in green may we not have a tradition of people who stained themselves with woad or some other plant?
On her right, warriors, long-haired, mustached and painted with woad.
No woollen cloth was allowed to be dyed black except with woad.
She disliked the smell of woad, a plant used for blue dye, and thereupon prohibited its cultivation.
It was also held to be good in many places for madder, hops, and woad.
The ardent advocates of its azure rival, woad, struggled long before they would allow its adoption.
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