Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WAD, or WADD
WAD, or WADD, n.
In mineralogy, black wadd is a species of the ore of manganese, of which there are four kinds; fibrous, ochery, pulverulent ochery, and dendritic. In some places, plumbago or black lead is called wad or wadd. – Cyc.
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