wade, waden

i & t. [A. S. wad an (pa. t. wód )=to wade, to trudge, to go; cogn. with Dut. waden =to wade, to ford; Icel. vadha (pa. t. vódh ) =to wade; vadh =a ford; Dan. vade; Sw. vada; O. H. Ger. wat an (pa. t. wuot ); Ger. waten to wade; wat a ford; Lat. vado to go; vadum =a ford, a shallow.] A. Intransitive : *1. To go, to pa . "Whan might is joined unto crueltee, Alas! to depe wol the venime wade ." Chaucer: C. Т., 14,413. 2. To walk or pa through any substance that impedes the free motion of the limbs; to move stepwise through a fluid or semi-fluid medium, as water, snow, mud, . IMG:content-0598.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A pair of long water-proof boots used by sportsmen for wading through water. " Waders are of as much service on the swampy ground round the pool as for actually reaching fish rising some way out."- Field , Sept. 11, 1886. II. Zoology ( plur .): Wading Birds. The name is sometimes confined to the families Charadriidæ and Scolopacide. Wad-hürst, s. (See def.] Geog.: A parish and market town of England, county Su ex. Wadhurst-clay, s. Geol.: A sub-division (the second from the top) of the Hastings Sand. Toward its base there are nodules and thin beds of Clay Ironstone, which, from the time of Henry III. till the first quarter of the nineteenth century, furnished the chief iron-ore smelted in England. wād-ing, pr.par. or a. [WADE, v.] wading-birds, s. pl. Ornith.: A popular name for the Grallæ or Gral latores (q.v.). In many cla ifications the Linnean name (Gralle) is now revived. *wad'-ling, subst . [WATTLE.) A wattled fence. (Tu er: Husbandrie, p. 83.) wad-mal, wad-maal, wad-moll, subst . [Icel. vádhmál=wadmal; vadh , vódh , vodh a piece of stuff, cloth as it leaves the loom; Sw vadmal ; Dan. vadmil.] A kind of very coarse and thick woolen cloth. "Cootes of wadmoll and course grose clothe."-Berners. Froi art; Cronyole, vol. ii., ch. ccxv. wad-mill, subst. [Etym. doubtful; cf. wadmal.] (See compound.)