He need not indulge in what is called the woad argument; we sha'n't go back to the early.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference

With these goes the Wadman, who dealt in, or grew, the dye-plant called woad; cf. Flaxman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

The 64-year-old's winning word was "woad," a plant whose leaves yield a blue dye.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The following method of setting a woad vat may be adopted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference

Thus kermes gave way to cochineal, woad to indigo, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference

But there would be no more purple and fine linen, and no more blue woad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Live Now] Reference

Bedfordshire there are large fields of woad or wad, for the use of dyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference

At one point I was looking into the process for making woad into a blue dye.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Perfect Red] Reference

The woad demonstration and explanation was, if anything, even more impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frazzle McFrazzle and the seven little frizzles] Reference

Mr. Craven, besides sporting as much woad on his person as an ancient Briton, wears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Since then woad has been little used except as a fermenting agent for the Indigo vat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference

When woad is now used it is always in combination with indigo, to improve the colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference

Jews were arguing over the interpretation of laws before the Brits washed off the woad.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

All Britons, without exception, stain themselves with woad, which produces a bluish tint.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

But now our soil either will not, or at the leastwise may not, bear either woad or madder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

The ancient Briton must have vied with his neighbor in different designs with the woad plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference

It is, in fact, made from woad - yes, the stuff ancient Britons used to paint themselves with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buy of the day] Reference

All Britons stain themselves dark blue with woad, which gives them a terrible aspect in battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

He's a thickset, woad tattooed mental defective whom I would not like to meet in a narrow lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

There was a bruise the colour of spilled woad at his temple, and weary smudges beneath his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

This vat ferments in much the same way as the woad vat, and presents the same general appearances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference

The ardent advocates of its azure rival, woad, struggled long before they would allow its adoption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference

She disliked the smell of woad, a plant used for blue dye, and thereupon prohibited its cultivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Minimum wage is something Barbara Walters tries to maintain after somebody cuts her off on the "woad.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Sokolow: Middie McCain More Moron than Maverick] Reference

Analysis of these wrappings has shown that the cords were originally blue, having been dyed with woad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bodies of the Bogs: Clothing and Hair Styles] Reference

It is supposed that woad was "vitrum" the dye with which Caesar said almost all the Britons stained their bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference

It is not so liable to get out of order as the woad vat, and in consequence is (p. 145) much more easily managed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference

The dyes are all organic— woad, madder, camomile, pomegranate— so that the colors grow more mellow as they age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Log of the Eclipse (8)] Reference

The replacement of woad with indigo is an example of the (literal) intertwining of local and imported coloring sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Valhalla Rising is like watching woad dry, but hypnotic, densely atmospheric in a portentous way, and weirdly beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valhalla Rising] Reference

It was aimed at Lupus, the foreign-labour supervisor, by a sinister, bare-armed tough nut who was covered in woad patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

What did your woad-clad ancestors give us then, Toad-in-the-hole, Morris Dancing or perhaps rolling a cheese down a hillside?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I saw him smile, dark eyes grave and unsurprised in the whorls of blue woad that tattooed his face, raising one hand in greeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

As tonight was a ceremonial occasion, he wore a coat of aurochs hide dyed blue with woad, buttoned and cinched with hammered gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unicorn Trade]

It can be inferred from the insistence that woad or indigo be used in black dyeing to soften the other ingredients in the dyebath. 56.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

The color was brilliant, incongruous, bright as the woad with which this man's ancestors had painted themselves before going forth to war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

The woad plant contains less indigotin, the coloring material within the source, and it requires higher heats to create color in textiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference