2. Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton
prepared for the purpose.
Waddle
(Wad"dle) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waddling ] [Freq. of wade; cf. AS.
wædlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade.] To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one
side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as,
a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak.
She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace.
Young. Waddle
(Wad"dle), v. t. To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton.
Waddler
(Wad"dler) n. One who, or that which, waddles.
Waddlingly
(Wad"dling*ly), adv. In a waddling manner.
Wade
(Wade) n. Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Wade
(Wade) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wading.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS.
wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. vaa, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere
to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.]
1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.]
When might is joined unto cruelty,
Alas, too deep will the venom wade.
Chaucer.
Forbear, and wade no further in this speech.
Old Play. 2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand,
etc.
So eagerly the fiend . . .
With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,
And swims, or sinks, or wades,
or creeps, or flies.
Milton. 3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly
inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
Dryden.
The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
Davenant. Wade
(Wade), v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded he rivers and swamps.
Wade
(Wade) n. The act of wading. [Colloq.]
Wader
(Wad"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, wades.
2. (Zoöl.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of
limicoline or grallatorial birds; — called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
Wading
(Wad"ing), a. & n. from Wade, v.
Wading bird. (Zoöl.) See Wader, 2.
