Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 : WordNet®

weald
     n : an area of open or forested country