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wade 音標拼音: [w'ed] vi. 跋涉
vt. 涉水
n. 跋涉,淺灘 跋涉涉水跋涉,淺灘 Wade n 1: English tennis player who won many women' s singles titles ( born in 1945) [ synonym: { Wade}, { Virginia Wade}] v 1: walk ( through relatively shallow water); " 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Wade \ Wade\, n. Woad. [ Obs.] -- Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster]
Wade \ Wade\, n. The act of wading. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster]
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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To go; to move forward. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. -- Old Play. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. [ 1913 Webster] So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] The king' s admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. -- Davenant. [ 1913 Webster]
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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 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 It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. [ 1913 Webster] Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { Wild woad} ( Bot.), the weld ({ Reseda luteola}). See { Weld}. { Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad. [ 1913 Webster] |
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