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Webster 1913 Edition

Wold

Wold

,
Noun.
[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. [GREEK] a grove, Skr.
vā[GREEK]a
a garden, inclosure. Cf.
Weald
.]
1.
A wood; a forest.
2.
A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.
And from his further bank Aetolia’s
wolds
espied.
Byron.
The wind that beats the mountain, blows
More softly round the open
wold
.
Tennyson.

Wold

,
Noun.
See
Weld
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wold

WOLD

, in Saxon, is the same as wald and weald, a wood, sometimes perhaps a lawn or plain. Wald signifies also power, dominion, from waldan, to rule. These words occur in names.

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