dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/woa_MW.json

{
  "woadwaxen":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": woodwaxen":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "woadwaxen alteration (influenced by woad entry 1 ) of woodwaxen; woadwax alteration (influenced by woad entry 1 ) of woodwax":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8w\u014dd\u02ccwaks\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133423",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "woald":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of woald variant of weld:1"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-145741",
    "type":[]
  },
  "woad":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8w\u014dd"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In France in 1598, King Henry IV favored woad producers by banning the import of indigo, and in 1609 decreed that anyone using the dye would be executed. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Nov. 2020",
      "Plus, indigo represented a threat to European textile merchants who had heavily invested in woad , a homegrown source of blue dye. \u2014 Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Nov. 2020",
      "His ruling \u00e9lite dressed in the finest clothes, made by boiling woad leaves and madder roots to produce dyes of dazzling cerulean and ruby. \u2014 Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker , 22 June 2020",
      "Seeing a peasant wearing red is improbable, but the abundance of woad makes blue dyes commonplace even among peasants. \u2014 Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics , 13 Nov. 2018",
      "The family imported herring and woad in large enough quantities to buy an existing estate and win a kind of ersatz ennoblement. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 Jan. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English wod , from Old English w\u0101d ; akin to Old High German weit woad, Latin vitrum":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045150"
  },
  "woader":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": woadman":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-d\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English woder , from wod woad + -er":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-143044"
  },
  "woadman":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who dyes with woad":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-dm\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-191647"
  },
  "woad vat":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a vat containing woad for reducing natural indigo by fermentation":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-231645"
  }
}