[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wad \wad\, wadd \wadd\, n. min.
      a an earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different
          oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often
          silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. there
          are several varieties.
      b plumbago, or black lead.
          1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wad \wad\, n. see woad.
   woad. obs.
   1913 webster
see also:
woad 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wad \wad\, n. probably of scand. origin; cf. sw. vadd wadding,
   dan vat, d.  g. watte. cf. wadmol.
   1913 webster
   1. a little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
      --holland.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   3. a soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance,
      used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture,
      padding a garment, etc.
      1913 webster

   wed hook, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for
      removing the wad from a gun.
      1913 webster
see also:
wadmol wed hook 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wad \wad\, v. t. imp.  p. p. waded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   wadding.
   1913 webster
   1. to form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad
      tow or cotton.
      1913 webster

   2. to insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to
      stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like
      cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
      1913 webster wad
see also:
waded wadding 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

woad \woad\, n. oe. wod, as. w=ad; akin to d. weede, g. waid,
   ohg. weit, dan. vaid, veid, sw. veide, l. vitrum. written
   also wad, and wade.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry
            figures.                              --milton.
      1913 webster

   wild woad bot., the weld reseda luteola. see weld.
      

   woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.
      1913 webster
see also:
wad wade isatis tinctoria cruciferae brassicaceae isatin 
isatis tinctoria wild woad reseda luteola weld woad mill 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wad
     n 1: often followed by `of' a large number or amount or extent;
          "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
          money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
          have cost plenty" syn: batch, deal, flock, good
          deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
           mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot,
           quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack,
           tidy sum, whole lot, whole slew
     2: a wad of something chewable as tobacco syn: chew, chaw,
         cud, quid, plug
     v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" syn: pack,
          bundle, compact
     2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" syn:
         jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram
     also: wadding, wadded
see also:
batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful 
heap lot mass mess mickle 
mint muckle peck pile plenty 
pot quite a little raft sight slew 
spate stack tidy sum whole lot whole slew 
chew chaw cud quid plug 
pack bundle compact jam jampack 
ram chock up cram wadding wadded 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

123 moby thesaurus words for "wad":
   accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate,
   aggregation, amassment, bankroll, batch, block, bomb, boodle, brim,
   bulk, bundle, ceil, charge, chock, chunk, clamp, clod, clump,
   compress, congeries, congest, conglobation, conglomerate,
   conglomeration, considerable, cram, crowd, crush, cumulation, deal,
   ensphere, face, feather, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up,
   freight, fur, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobs, good deal,
   good sum, great deal, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, hunch, hunk,
   inlay, interline, jam, jam-pack, jillion, lade, large sum,
   lashings, line, load, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, mass, mess,
   millions, mint, mint of money, nip, nugget, oodles, overfill, pack,
   packet, pad, pat, peck, pile, piles, pinch, pot, potful,
   power of money, press, pretty penny, quantity, quite a little,
   raft, rafts, ram in, roll, satiate, saturate, scads, shoestring,
   sight, slew, slews, snowball, spate, squeeze, stack, stacks,
   stockpile, stuff, supercharge, surfeit, thousands, tidy sum,
   tighten, top off, tweak, wad up, wads, wainscot, weight,
   whole slew

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