wade

verb

1. (intransitive)To walk through water or something that impedes progress.

   “So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.”

   “After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.”

2. (intransitive)To progress with difficulty.

   “to wade through a dull book”

   “And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.”

   “The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.”

3. (transitive)To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.

   “wading swamps and rivers”

4. To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.

   “I saw my Meg come linking o'er the lee; I saw my Meg, but Maggy saw nae me: For yet the sun was wading through the mist, And she was close upon me ere she wist.”

   “... the pale light of a crescent moon wading among the black and lowering clouds.”

   “When sunshine has a scorching and enervating effect on man, during the greater part of the day, the next day will be cloudy and perhaps rainy. When the sun wades through clouds of any kind, rain may or may not follow;”

   “[…] the sun is "wading" when it is struggling through a heavy scud, and the moon is "sitting" when her dark side is turned towards the earth. The poets themselves may be in vain searched for a finer expression than the first.”

   “The moon, which had arisen during their conversation, was, in the phrase of that country, wading or struggling with clouds, and shed only a doubtful and occasional light.”

5. (intransitive)To enter recklessly.

   “to wade into a fight or a debate”

   “The champ [Alekhine] seems to reel and stagger helplessly. It's an old gag because a blind man can see he ain't glassy-eyed a-tall—but Rodzinsky wades in. 10.QxR”

   “Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour to a postwar revival in the country’s monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93 […]”

noun

1. An act of wading.

   “We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.”

2. (colloquial)A ford; a place to cross a river.
3. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of woad.

   “Woad or Wade is a very rich Commodity”

name

1. A topographic surname from Old English.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

   “In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.”

3. A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
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