Urd

noun

1. In Scand. myth., one of the three Fates, the Norn of the past.
2. In India, the most highly prized of all the pulses of the genus Phaseolus, a variety of P. Mungo, largely cultivated in all parts of India. It is a valued article of Hindu medicine, and as food is eaten in the form of bread, boiled whole, parched, or as spice-balls. Same as mash.
3. goddess of fate: a giantess who personified the past