Meaning

noun European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America

noun United States abolitionist (1803-1895)

noun a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together

originFrom Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Alternatively reborrowed from or contaminated by Anglo-Norman wold, wolde (compare Old French guaide). Doublet of woad. Dutch wouw is derived from the same basic form with -l-.

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