wood : Idioms & Phrases

• the timber of a tree of the West Indies (Guarea Swartzii).

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Al"oes wood`

Definitions

1. See Agalloch.

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Am*boy"na wood

Definitions

1. A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.

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• noun closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia
  Viburnum recognitum.
  
• noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
  arrow wood; Viburnum dentatum.
  

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• noun strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
  balsa.
  

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• noun a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918
  Marne River; Chateau-Thierry; Battle of the Marne.
  

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Beth*ab"a*ra wood`

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1. (Bot.) A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.

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• noun small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge
  mock orange; Maclura pomifera; osage orange.
  

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• noun small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets
  Jacquinia armillaris.
  

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Bra*zil" wood`

Etymology

OE. brasil, LL. brasile (cf. Pg. & Sp. brasil, Pr. bresil, Pr. bresil); perh. from Sp. or Pg. brasa a live coal (cf. Braze, Brasier); or Ar. vars plant for dyeing red or yellow. This name was given to the wood from its color; and it is said that King Emanuel, of Portugal, gave the name Brazil to the country in South America on account of its producing this wood.

Definitions

1. The wood of the oriental Cæsalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.
2. A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Cæsalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.

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• noun wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes
  brierwood; briarwood.
  

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• the wood of the bullet tree.

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• noun moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork
  
  • teak and other heavy cabinet wood

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Cal"a*man`der wood

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1. A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

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Cam*peach"y Wood`

Etymology

From the bay of Campeachy, in Mexico.

Definitions

1. Logwood.

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• the beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and P. Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands.

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• noun small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges
  Sabinea carinalis.
  

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• noun an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
  Dalbergia nigra; Brazilian rosewood; jacaranda.
  

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• noun a yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree
  tung oil.
  

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• . See Capercailzie.

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Co"cus wood`

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1. A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.

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• noun Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
  shamrock; Oxalis acetosella; cuckoo bread.
  

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• a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath.

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• noun East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
  coralwood; Adenanthera pavonina; Barbados pride; red sandalwood; peacock flower fence.
  

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• wood for fuel cut to the length of four feet (when of full measure).

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• Calamander wood.

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• a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. McElrath.

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• noun creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
  creeping oxalis; Oxalis corniculata.
  

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• noun a variety of wood mint
  Blephilia celiata.
  

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• noun any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil
  

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• noun a wood rat with dusky feet
  

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• noun small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
  umbrella magnolia; elkwood; Magnolia tripetala; umbrella tree.
  

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• noun English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
  Ellen Price Wood; Wood.
  

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• noun nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens
  Apodemus sylvaticus.
  

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• noun North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
  dagger fern; Polystichum acrostichoides; canker brake; Christmas fern.
  
• noun North American fern with evergreen fronds
  Dryopteris marginalis; leatherleaf wood fern; evergreen wood fern.
  

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• the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

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• varieties of amianthus.

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• noun fern or northern Eurasia and North America having fragrant fronds
  Dryopteris fragrans; fragrant cliff fern; fragrant shield fern.
  

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• a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. McElrath.

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• noun North American fern with a blackish lustrous stipe
  Dryopteris goldiana; Goldie's fern; Goldie's shield fern.
  

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Go"pher wood`

Etymology

Heb. g&omac;pher.

Definitions

1. A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.

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• noun dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets
  
• noun wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets
  cocoswood; cocuswood.
  

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• noun United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
  Wood.
  

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• (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several species of Atriplex and Obione.

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• noun heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes
  guaiac wood.
  

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• noun heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes
  guaiac wood.
  

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• the wood of any gum tree, esp. the wood of the Eucalyptus piperita, of New South Wales.

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• noun a variety of wood mint
  Blephilia hirsuta.
  

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• wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc. -

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• noun large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees
  Polyporus frondosus; hen of the woods; Grifola frondosa.
  

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• noun large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees
  Polyporus frondosus; hen of the woods; Grifola frondosa.
  

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• noun large black Old World grouse
  capercaillie; capercailzie; Tetrao urogallus.
  

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• noun fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium
  

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• the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.

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Ki`a*boo"ca wood`

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1. . See Kyaboca wood.

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• a wood from Brazil, called also violet wood, beautifully streaked in violet tints, used in turning and small cabinetwork. The tree is probably a species of Dalbergia. See Jacaranda.

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Ky`a*bo"ca wood`

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1. (Bot.) (a) Amboyna wood. (b) Sandalwood (Santalum album).

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• (Bot.), the wood of a South African tree (Cassine Colpoon), used for carving.

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• noun North American fern with evergreen fronds
  Dryopteris marginalis; leatherleaf wood fern; evergreen wood fern.
  

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• noun South African evergreen having hard tough wood
  Psychotria capensis; lemon-wood; lemonwood tree; lemonwood.
  

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• noun South African evergreen having hard tough wood
  Psychotria capensis; lemon-wood; lemonwood tree; lemonwood.
  

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• (Bot.), the beautiful dark wood of the South American tree Cæsalpinia echinata.

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Lin*go"a wood`

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1. . Amboyna wood.

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• noun hard marbled wood
  marblewood.
  
• noun large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
  Andaman marble; Diospyros kurzii; marblewood.
  

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• noun North American fern with evergreen fronds
  Dryopteris marginalis; leatherleaf wood fern; evergreen wood fern.
  

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• noun golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head
  

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• noun maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn
  Acer pennsylvanicum; moosewood; striped dogwood; goosefoot maple; striped maple.
  
• noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers
  ropebark; leatherwood; moosewood; Dirca palustris; wicopy.
  

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• noun English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
  Ellen Price Wood; Wood.
  

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My*all" wood`

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1. (Bot.) A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla.

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• (Bot.), a large rhamnaceous tree (Colibrina reclinata) of Southern Florida and the West Indies, having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine polish. C. S. Sargent.

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• noun United States film actress (1938-1981)
  Wood.
  

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• noun a surrounding or nearby region
  neighborhood; vicinity; neighbourhood; locality.
  
  • the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
  • it is a rugged locality
  • he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
  • I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods

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• noun large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia
  needlewood; Hakea leucoptera; needle wood.
  

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• noun large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia
  needlewood; Hakea leucoptera; needle wood.
  

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Nic`a*ra"gua wood`

Definitions

1. Brazil wood.

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• noun a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
  driver.
  

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• (Bot.), the wood of the Palmyra palm.

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• noun edible mild-tasting mushroom found in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America
  Strobilomyces floccopus.
  

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O*man"der wood`

Etymology

Etymol. uncertain.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.

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• noun medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas
  Halesia tetraptera; silverbell tree; Halesia carolina; snowdrop tree; silver-bell tree.
  

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• not in a place, or state, of obscurity or doubt; free from difficulty or perils; safe. Colloq.

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• (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called also pheasant wood. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles.

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• noun tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
  peach-wood; Caesalpinia echinata; brazilwood; peachwood.
  

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• noun tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
  peach-wood; Caesalpinia echinata; brazilwood; peachwood.
  

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• . (Bot.) Same as Partridge wood (a), under Partridge.

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• (Bot.), a name in the West Indies for the wood of several very different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba.

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• (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; so called because, when cut horizontally, the markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine.

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• noun wood that is not finished or painted
  

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Ro*set"ta wood`

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1. An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure.

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• noun hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork
  red sandalwood.
  

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• noun the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany
  sabicu.
  

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• (Bot.), the yellowish wood of a South African tree (Elæodendron croceum); also, the tree itself.

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Sa*pan" wood

Etymology

Malay sapang.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A dyewood yielded by Cæsalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. Written also sappan wood.

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Sap*pan" wood"

Definitions

1. Sapan wood.

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• verb breathe noisily during one's sleep
  snore; saw logs.
  
  • she complained that her husband snores

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Sea" wood louse`

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1. (Zoöl.) A sea slater.

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• noun a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
  calabura; Muntingia calabura; silkwood; Jamaican cherry; calabur tree.
  

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• noun English conductor (1869-1944)
  Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Wood.
  

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• noun English conductor (1869-1944)
  Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Wood.
  

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• noun tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
  Cecropia peltata; imbauba; trumpetwood; snake wood; trumpet tree.
  

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• noun deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows
  arrow wood; Viburnum dentatum.
  

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• noun large tree of Australasia
  silky elm; booyong; brown oak; red beech; Terrietia trifoliolata; crow's foot; Heritiera trifoliolata.
  

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• verb flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  lam; run; head for the hills; hightail it; bunk; run away; scarper; escape; fly the coop; break away; scat; turn tail.
  
  • If you see this man, run!
  • The burglars escaped before the police showed up

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• noun New Zealand shrub
  New Zealand mountain pine; Halocarpus bidwilli; tarwood; Dacrydium bidwilli.
  
• noun New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes
  Dacrydium colensoi; tarwood.
  

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Thy"ine wood`

Etymology

Gr. , fr. , adj., pertaining to the tree or , an African tree with sweet-smelling wood.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. Rev. xviii. 12.

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• the variegated heartwood of a tree (Machærium Schomburgkii) found in Guiana.

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• noun tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
  Cecropia peltata; imbauba; trumpetwood; snake wood; trumpet tree.
  

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• noun vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides; red berries turn black
  twistwood; Viburnum lantana; wayfaring tree.
  

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• a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana.

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• noun perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers
  Oxalis violacea.
  

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• noun small flycatcher of western North America
  Contopus sordidulus.
  

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• noun rhizomatous perennial wood aster of eastern North America with white flowers
  Aster divaricatus.
  

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• (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically, acetic acid. Formerly called pyroligneous acid.

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• noun a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol
  wood alcohol; methanol; methyl alcohol.
  

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• noun common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers
  Anemone quinquefolia; snowdrop.
  
• noun European anemone with solitary white flowers common in deciduous woodlands
  Anemone nemorosa.
  

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• (Bot.), a delicate flower (Anemone nemorosa) of early spring; also called windflower. See Illust. of Anemone.

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• noun reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands
  Formica rufa.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large ant (Formica rufa) which lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.

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• (Bot.). See Elephant apple, under Elephant.

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• noun any of several asters of eastern North America usually growing in woods
  

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• noun hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally
  clover-root; herb bennet; Geum urbanum; cloveroot.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the drill.

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• . (Bot.) (a) Same as Betony. (b) The common American lousewort (Pedicularis Canadensis), a low perennial herb with yellowish or purplish flowers.

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• noun engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints
  wood block; woodcut.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Pine weevil, under Pine. (b) The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under Peach), and of the goat moths. (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See Tremex. (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga. (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura terebrans).

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• a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. Knight.

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• (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the principal constituent of woody fiber.

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• noun a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand
  

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• the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods. Poetic Coleridge.

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• noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
  brown coal; lignite.
  
• noun a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
  charcoal.
  

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• charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.

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• (Zoöl.), a small European cricket (Nemobius sylvestris).

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• noun weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
  chafeweed; Gnaphalium sylvaticum.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the wood pigeon.

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• an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an engraving.

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• (Zoöl.), the stockdove.

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• noun male wood duck
  

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• a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.

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• noun showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees
  Aix sponsa; wood duck; summer duck.
  

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• (Zoöl.) (a) A very beautiful American duck (Aix sponsa). The male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its nest in trees, whence the name. Called also bridal duck, summer duck, and wood widgeon. (b) The hooded merganser. (c) The Australian maned goose (Chlamydochen jubata).

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• an echo from the wood.

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• . (a) An engraver on wood. (b) (Zoöl.) Any of several species of small beetles whose larvæ bore beneath the bark of trees, and excavate furrows in the wood often more or less resembling coarse engravings; especially, Xyleborus xylographus.

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• noun a print made from a woodcut
  woodcut.
  
• noun engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints
  wood block; woodcut.
  

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• . (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving.

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• noun any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris
  wood fern; woodfern.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Shield fern, under Shield.

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• . (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue. (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty mass.

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• noun a coarse file with sharp pointed projections
  rasp.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles whose larvæ bore in the wood, or beneath the bark, of trees.

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• noun wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce
  wood frog; Rana sylvatica.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a common North American frog (Rana sylvatica) which lives chiefly in the woods, except during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown, with a black stripe on each side of the head.

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• noun pungent Old World weedy plant
  Ramsons; wild garlic; Allium ursinum.
  

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• . (Bot.) See under Germander.

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• a fabled sylvan deity.

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• noun texture produced by the fibers in wood
  woodiness; woodgrain.
  

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• . (Bot.) See under Grass.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce partridge. See under Spruce.

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• (Zoöl.), the ringdove. Prov. Eng.

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• noun flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting
  weka; maori hen.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged rails of the genus Ocydromus, including the weka and allied species. (b) The American woodcock.

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• noun tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World arboreal birds belonging to Irrisor and allied genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but have a curved beak, and a longer tail.

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• noun Eurasia except southern Russia; northern North America
  Equisetum Sylvaticum.
  

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• noun sometimes placed in genus Scilla
  bluebell; wild hyacinth; Hyacinthoides nonscripta; Scilla nonscripta; harebell.
  

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• noun any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis
  Ibis ibis; wood ibis.
  
• noun an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
  Mycteria americana; flinthead; wood ibis.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus Tantalus. The head and neck are naked or scantily covered with feathers. The American wood ibis (Tantalus loculator) is common in Florida.

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• (Zoöl.), a small European lark (Alauda arborea), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on trees.

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• noun bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers
  Daphne laureola; spurge laurel.
  
• noun a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers
  American laurel; Kalmia latifolia; mountain laurel; calico bush.
  

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• (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub (Daphne Laureola).

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• (Zoöl.), a European spotted moth (Zeuzera æsculi) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other fruit trees.

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• noun any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
  wake-robin; trillium.
  
• noun lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers
  Lilium philadelphicum.
  

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• (Bot.), the lily of the valley.

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• (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.

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• (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and related genera. See Sow bug, under Sow, and Pill bug, under Pill. (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insects of the family Psocidæ, which live in the crevices of walls and among old books and papers. Some of the species are called also book lice, and deathticks, or deathwatches.

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• noun slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia
  Poa nemoralis; Agrostis alba.
  

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• noun American herb of genus Blephilia with more or less hairy leaves and clusters of purplish or bluish flowers
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small mites of the family Oribatidæ. They are found chiefly in woods, on tree trunks and stones.

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• . (Eng. Law) (a) Formerly, the forest court. (b) The court of attachment.

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• noun any of various New World woodland mice
  

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• noun American perennial herb found in rich woods and provided with stinging hairs; provides fibers used for textiles
  Laportea canadensis.
  

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• . (Bot.) See under Nettle.

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• (Bot.), woody nightshade.

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• (Bot.), the filbert.

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• noun a deity or nymph of the woods
  dryad.
  

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• . (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad. "The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim." Milton. (b) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored moths belonging to the genus Eudryas. The larvæ are bright-colored, and some of the species, as Eudryas grata, and E. unio, feed on the leaves of the grapevine. (c) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue.

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• wood burnt on the altar.

  We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. Neh. x. 34.

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• (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees of the genus Dipterocarpus, having properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See Gurjun.

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• (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having some resemblance to wood.

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• paper made of wood pulp. See Wood pulp, below.

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• noun small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
  pewit; peewee; Contopus virens; peewit; pewee.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a North American tyrant flycatcher (Contopus virens). It closely resembles the pewee, but is smaller.

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• (Zoöl.), any black and white woodpecker, especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
• . (Zoöl.) See French pie, under French.

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• noun Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
  cushat; ringdove; Columba palumbus.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to Palumbus and allied genera of the family Columbidæ. (b) The ringdove.

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• noun perennial herb native to woodland of the eastern United States having yellow flowers
  celandine poppy; Stylophorum diphyllum.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a plant louse.

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• noun wood that has been ground to a pulp; used in making cellulose products (as rayon or paper)
  

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• (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.

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• noun American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
  skunk; polecat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to Rollulus and allied genera, as the red-crested wood quail (R. roulroul), the male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red hairlike feathers.

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• noun common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
  cottontail; cottontail rabbit.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the cottontail.

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• noun any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
  wood rat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American wild rats of the genus Neotoma found in the Southern United States; called also bush rat. The Florida wood rat (Neotoma Floridana) is the best-known species.
• (Zoöl.), any American rat of the genus Neotoma, especially N. Floridana, common in the Southern United States. Its feet and belly are white.

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• (Bot.), a tall grass (Cinna arundinacea) growing in moist woods.

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• the steward or overseer of a wood. Eng.

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• (Bot.), any plant of the genus Luzula, differing from the true rushes of the genus Juncus chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.

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• noun European germander with one-sided racemes of yellow flowers; naturalized in North America
  Teucrium scorodonia.
  
• noun subshrub with serrate leaves and cream-colored to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America
  American germander; Teucrium canadense.
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of the genus Teucrium. See Germander.

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• a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.

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• noun thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing
  excelsior.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the hooded merganser.

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• (Zoöl.), the fisher. See Fisher, 2.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World singing birds belonging to Grallina, Collyricincla, Prionops, and allied genera, common in India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes, but feed upon both insects and berries.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The American woodcock. (b) An Asiatic snipe (Gallinago nemoricola).

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• soot from burnt wood.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

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• noun any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
  sorrel; oxalis.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis (Oxalis Acetosella), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of Shamrock.

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• noun a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol
  wood alcohol; methanol; methyl alcohol.
  

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• . (Chem.) See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl.

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• noun European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters
  Euphorbia amygdaloides.
  

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• a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small South American humming birds belonging to the genus Calothorax. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue, purple, and other colors.

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• noun any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis
  Ibis ibis; wood ibis.
  
• noun an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
  Mycteria americana; flinthead; wood ibis.
  

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• noun Europe
  Fragaria vesca; wild strawberry.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the yaffle.

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• noun a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
  xylose.
  

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• noun Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow
  swallow shrike.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World passerine birds belonging to the genus Artamus and allied genera of the family Artamidæ. They are common in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white beneath.

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• (Zoöl.), any woodpecker.

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• noun any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood
  

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• . See under Tar.

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• noun large thrush common in eastern American woodlands; noted for its melodious song
  Hylocichla mustelina.
  

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• (Zoöl.) (a) An American thrush (Turdus mustelinus) noted for the sweetness of its song. See under Thrush. (b) The missel thrush.

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• noun common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
  Dermacentor variabilis; American dog tick.
  

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• . See in Vocabulary.

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• . (Min.). See Cassiterite.

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• (Zoöl.), the goldcgest.

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• (Zoöl.), sculptured tortoise. See under Sculptured.

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• (Bot.), the white bryony.

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• noun a red-brown liquid formed in distillation of wood which contains acetic acid, methanol, acetone, wood oils, and tars
  pyroligneous acid.
  

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• . See Wood acid, above.

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• noun common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows
  Viola reichenbachiana; Viola sylvatica; hedge violet.
  
• noun common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies
  bird's-foot violet; Johnny-jump-up; pansy violet; Viola pedata.
  

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• noun a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it
  woodworking vise; shoulder vise.
  

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• noun small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song
  New World warbler.
  
• noun European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage
  Phylloscopus sibilatrix.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of the genus Dendroica. See Warbler. (b) A European warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix); called also green wren, wood wren, and yellow wren.
• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous American warblers of the genus Dendroica. Among the most common wood warblers in the Eastern States are the yellowbird, or yellow warbler (see under Yellow), the black-throated green warbler (Dendroica virens), the yellow-rumped warbler (D. coronata), the blackpoll (D. striata), the bay-breasted warbler (D. castanea), the chestnut-sided warbler (D. Pennsylvanica), the Cape May warbler (D. tigrina), the prairie warbler (see under Prairie), and the pine warbler (D. pinus). See also Magnolia warbler, under Magnolia, and Blackburnian warbler.

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• noun showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees
  Aix sponsa; wood duck; summer duck.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The wood warbler. (b) The willow warbler.

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• noun a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium; melts at about 160 degrees Fahrenheit
  Wood's alloy.
  

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• noun a fusible alloy that is half bismuth plus lead, tin, and cadmium; melts at about 160 degrees Fahrenheit
  Wood's alloy.
  

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Wood's" met"al

Definitions

1. A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66° to 71° C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible.

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Wood"-bound` adjective

Definitions

1. Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.

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• adjective satellite fueled by wood
  wood-burning.
  
  • a wood-burning stove'

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• noun any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
  woodhewer; tree creeper; woodcreeper.
  

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• noun any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris
  wood fern; woodfern.
  

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• adjective satellite fueled by wood
  wood-burning.
  
  • a wood-burning stove'

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• noun wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce
  wood frog; Rana sylvatica.
  

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Wood"-lay`er noun

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

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Wood"-note` noun

Etymology

Wood, n. + note.

Definitions

1. A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. R.

   Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton.

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• noun any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
  wood rat.
  

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Wood"-sare` noun

Etymology

Wood + Prov. E. sare for sore.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A kind of froth seen on herbs. Obs.

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Wood"-sere` noun

Definitions

1. The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. Written also wood-seer. Obs. Tusser.

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• noun a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers
  family Oxalidaceae; Oxalidaceae.
  

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Wood"-wash`, Wood"-wax`, Wood"-wax`en noun (Also<

• Wood-wash
• Wood-wax
• Wood-waxen

)

Etymology

AS. wuduweaxe.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) Same as Woadwaxen.

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