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}.