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Wade   /weɪd/   Listen
verb
Wade  v. t.  To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded the rivers and swamps.


Wade  v. i.  (past & past part. waded; pres. part. wading)  
1.
To go; to move forward. (Obs.) "When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade." "Forbear, and wade no further in this speech."
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."
3.
Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed slowly among objects or circumstances that constantly embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book. "And wades through fumes, and gropes his way." "The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties."


noun
Wade  n.  Woad. (Obs.)


Wade  n.  The act of wading. (Colloq.)


Woad  n.  (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 It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.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."
Wild woad (Bot.), the weld (Reseda luteola). See Weld.
Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.





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"Wade" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wade in, wade in, where the river runs Clear in the moonlight over the stones! It'll wash the ache ...
— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
... and season to this incessant panorama of childhood? The pigmy people trudge through the snow on moor and hill-side; wade down flooded roads; are not to be daunted by wind or rain, frost or the white smother of 'millers and bakers at fisticuffs.' Most beautiful of all, he sees them travelling schoolward by that late moonlight which now and again in the winter months ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... for no man, and the rapidly rising waters had flooded the whole of the low land which formed this bank of the river, so that we were compelled to wade, feeling with a stick for the edges of the creeks in our route, over each of which Mr. Helpman and myself had alternately to swim in order to pass the arms undamaged; and then Ask, making the best jump that he could muster for ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes
... the coach used to take us one side and make us believe that the one thing in life we wanted was that game. He used to make us as hungry for it as a starved dog for a bone. He used to make us ache for it. So we used to wade in and tear ourselves all to pieces to ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... feet in spring, though it is usually between fifty and sixty at other times. Here, in the estuary of the Petitcodiac, where the river meets the wave of the tide, the volumes contending cause the Great Bore, as it is called; and as in this region the swine wade out into the mud in search of shell fish, they are sometimes swept away and drowned. The Amazon River also has its Bore; the Indians, trying to imitate the sound of the roaring ...
— Over the Border: Acadia • Eliza Chase


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