Wold (?), n. [OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. vollr, a field, and probably to Gr. a grove, Skr. vaa 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.
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Wold, n.
See Weld.
© Webster 1913.