2 entries under this word

Weald

Wēald, n.

noun

n. [A-S. See WOLD.] A wood or forest; wooded land or region; also, an open country;—often found in the composition of names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Mourn as he fled. Tennyson.

Wēald’en, a.

adjective

(weeld’n) (Synop., § 130), a. [A-S. weald, wald, a forest, a wood, so called because this formation occurs in the wealds or woods of Kent and Sussex.] (Geol.) Of, or pertaining to, the upper part of the oölitic series. Mantell.