Definition of wad

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Wad (n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc..

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Bittern :: Bittern (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species..
Wadsetter :: Wadsetter (n.) One who holds by a wadset.
Desmognathous :: Desmognathous (a.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds..
Waded :: Waded (imp. & p. p.) of Wad.
Waddle :: Waddle (v. t.) To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it..
Wady :: Wady (n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season..
Nowadays :: Nowadays (adv.) In these days; at the present time.
Wadding :: Wadding (n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made..
Cozy :: Cozy (a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.
Howadji :: Howadji (n.) A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.
Wade :: Wade (n.) Woad.
Thenadays :: Thenadays (adv.) At that time; then; in those days; -- correlative to nowadays.
Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..
Scottering :: Scottering (n.) The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
Wad :: Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose..
Grommet :: Grommet (n.) A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.
Waddlingly :: Waddlingly (adv.) In a waddling manner.
Wad :: Wad (v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton..
Wadd :: Wadd (n.) Plumbago, or black lead..
Godwit :: Godwit (n.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin..
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