Weald \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)