welda

welda [ME welde] 1 dyer's rocket, weld (Reseda luteola), or sim., (also) yellow dyestuff prepared from it. a1153 si aliqua navis veniens carcata fuerit cum guello, dabit pro qualibet frayel ad introitum xxij d. (Assisa de Tolloneis) APScot I 670; 1327 xx dolia waide et sexcentas petras walde ‥ in portu del S. in Flandria carcari fecisse Pat 166 m. 5d.; 1350 waidas et wedas CalCl 277; 13‥ vendiderunt weydam suam per cumbam ‥ et cineres per barillos, et woldam suam per petras Rec. Norw. II 209; 1359 illa xxv dolia et una pipa wayde et mille petre wolde in navibus de L. in Flandria IMisc 180/2; 1423 in plenam et pacificam possessionem ‥ per liberacionem sex ballettorum walde Cl 274 m. 19d.. 2 dyestuff prepared from the leaves of Isatis tinctoria, woad (v. et. waida, woda). 1458 balas wisde sive gualde vulgariter nuncupate wode Cl 309 m. 23d.; 1523 de vinis, gualdis sive pastellis vocatis Thoulouse woad Foed. XIV 3 (cf. ib.: dolia ‥ vinorum, gualdorum, pastellorum); 1532 parvas dim' balett' gualde vocate Toulouse woade KR Mem 311 Rec. P. r. 49. 3 (~a rubea) madder. 1555 gualda rubea dict' madder Pat 904 m. 16.

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