Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WELD, or WOLD
WELD, or WOLD, n.
A plant used by dyers to give a yellow color, and sometimes called driers weed. It is much cultivated in Kent for the London dyers. It is naturalized in some parts of Connecticut. It is the Reseda Luteola of the botanists. – Cyc.
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