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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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WOAD, n. [G.] A plant of the genus Isatis, cultivated for the use of dyers. The woad blue is a very deep blue, and is the base of many other colors or shades of color. Woad is first bruised in a mill, and then made into balls. It grows wild in France and along the coasts of the Baltic. The term woad is applied to the Reseda, weld or wold, and to the Genista tinctoria or dyers broom.
An herbaceous cruciferous plant
(Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring
matter derived from its leaves.
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now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in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. | ||||||||