\Weald\, n. [AS. See {Wold}.]
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open
country; -- often used in place names.
      Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And
      heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she
      fled.                                    --Tennyson.
{Weald clay} (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden
   strata. See {Wealden}.