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dyers rocket

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dyer's rocket

 
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weld 2 .
Origin:
1860–65; cultivated for a yellow dye
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weld

2  [weld]
–noun
1. a mignonette, Reseda luteola, of southern Europe, yielding a yellow dye.
2. the dye.
Also, wold, woald, would.
Also called dyer's rocket.

Origin:
1325–75; ME welde; c. MLG walde, MD woude
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weld  (n.)
plant (Resedo luteola) producing yellow dye, c.1374, from O.E. *wealde, perhaps a variant of O.E. wald "forest" (cf. M.L.G. walde, M.Du. woude). Sp. gualda, Fr. gaude are Gmc. loan-words.
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