| Wold | n. [ OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. völlr, a field, and probably to Gr. &unr_; a grove, Skr. vā&unr_;a a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. A wood; a forest. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. [ 1913 Webster ] And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ] The wind that beats the mountain, blows
More softly round the open wold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ] |
