wad

wad
    n 1: a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to
         wipe the counter"
    2: (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"; "see the rest of the
       winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
       plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
       {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal},
       {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint},
       {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
       {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
       {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
    3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: {chew}, {chaw},
       {cud}, {quid}, {plug}, {wad}]
    v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: {pack},
         {bundle}, {wad}, {compact}]
    2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
       {jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {cram}, {wad}]
    

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.
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Wad \Wad\, n. [See {Woad}.]
   Woad. [Obs.]
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Wad \Wad\, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding,
   Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. {Wadmol}.]
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   1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
      --Holland.
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   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.
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   3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance,
      used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture,
      padding a garment, etc.
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   {Wed hook}, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for
      removing the wad from a gun.
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Wad \Wad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Wadding}.]
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   1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad
      tow or cotton.
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   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.
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Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[=a]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid,
   OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written
   also {wad}, and {wade}.]
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   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}.
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   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.
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            Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry
            figures.                              --Milton.
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   {Wild woad} (Bot.), the weld ({Reseda luteola}). See {Weld}.
      

   {Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad.
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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