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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[AS. See

A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; – often used in place names.

Fled all night long by glimmering waste and

weald

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And heard the spirits of the waste and

weald

Moan as she fled.

Tennyson.

Weald clay

(Geol.)

the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See