waida

waida, weida [ME waide < AN weide; cf. woda], blue dyestuff prepared from the leaves of Isatis tinctoria, woad. V. et. welda, woda. 1176 de weida [v. l. waido] Flandrensium qui fugitivi sunt (Leic.) Pipe 184 (cf. ib. 29: 1177 weisda); 1196 de mercatoribus pro licentia ducendi wasdiam in Angliam et vendendi eam Pipe (Chanc.) 17; 1197 pro catallis ‥ sc. ‥ iiij fraellis waisde Pipe 166 (cf. ib. 171: 1198 waisdie); 1199 W. de C. debet x m. pro deliberatione vaisde Ib. 144; 1200 non licet tinctoribus pannos suos proprios tingere nisi tantum in waido (Linc.) CurR RC I 260; 1204 sint quieti de quindecima danda de omnibus mercandisis suis excepta tantum wayda Pat 44a; a1216 wesdarii debent ponere wesdam suam super kaiam (Mun. Lond.) EHR XVII 725 (cf. MGL II 68); 1216 ad veniendum in Angliam cum uno frahello weidie Pat 11; s1257 mercatorum de Normannia qui ducunt wisedam in civitate Leg. Ant. Lond. 30; 1267 quare ‥ arrestari fecisset ‥ x dolea weyde (CurR) Law Merch. II 10; ? 1277 si wisdarius tradiderit alicui wysdam ad assaium faciendum (LBLond. A 136) MGL I 723; 1300 de quolibet quarterio warde [? l. waide] venali, ij d. Reg. Carl. I 116; 1303 mensurarii wisde [Cal. LBLond.: wysde] et abrocarii inde jurati (LBLond. C 83) Ib. I 588; 1303 adduxit vij dolia weysde EEC 361; 1306 F. M. querelatus ‥ quod ipse detinuit waydia sua [sic] ‥ ad vendendum ‥ post xl dies Rec. Leic. I 250; †gardo [l. gaida or gaisda] ‥ herba tinctoris est Alph. 71; 1392 cclxxx balas waide de Lumbardia ‥ ad cccxxvij li. iij s. et v d. ‥ appreciatas (Cl) Foed. VII 727b.