Webster's Dictionary 1828

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WOOD-LAYER

WOOD-LAYER, noun [wood and layer.] A young oak or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the white thorn or other plants used in hedges.

1298

WOOD-LOCK

WOOD-LOCK, noun [wood and lock.] In shipbuilding, a piece of elm, close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.

1299

WOOD-LOUSE

WOOD-LOUSE, noun [wood and louse.] An insect, the millepede.

1300

WOOD-MEIL

WOOD-MEIL, noun A coarse hairy stuff made of Iceland wool, used to line the ports of ships of war.

1301

WOOD-MITE

WOOD-MITE, [wood and mite.] A small insect found in old wood.

1302

WOOD-MONGER

WOOD-MONGER, noun [wood and monger.] A wood seller.

1303

WOOD-MOTE

WOOD-MOTE, noun [wood and mote.] In England, the ancient name of the forest court; now the court of attachment.

1304

WOOD-NIGHTSHADE

WOOD-NIGHTSHADE, noun A plant.

1305

WOOD-NOTE

WOOD-NOTE, noun [wood and note.] Wild music.--Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancys child, warble his native wood-notes wild.

1306

WOOD-NYMPH

WOOD-NYMPH, noun [wood and nymph.] A fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad.The wood-nymphs deckd with daisies trim.

1307

WOOD-OFFERING

WOOD-OFFERING, noun Wood burnt on the altar. Nehemiah 10:1.

1308

WOOD-PIGEON

WOOD-PIGEON, noun [wood and pigeon.] The ring-dove, (Columba palumbus.)

1309

WOOD-PUCERON

WOOD-PUCERON, noun [wood and puceron.] A small insect of the puceron kind, of a grayish color, having two hollow horns on the hinder part of its body. It resembles the puceron o...

1310

WOOD-ROOF

WOOD-ROOF, WOOD-RUFF, noun [wood and roof or ruff.] A plant of the genus Asperula.

1311

WOOD-SAGE

WOOD-SAGE, noun [wood and sage.] A plant of the genus Teucrium.

1312

WOOD-SARE

WOOD-SARE, noun A kind of froth seen on herbs.

1313

WOOD-SEERE

WOOD-SEERE, noun The time when there is no sap in a tree.

1314

WOOD-SHOCK

WOOD-SHOCK, noun The fisher or wejack, a quadruped of the weasel kind in North America.

1315

WOOD-SOOT

WOOD-SOOT, noun [wood and soot.] Soot from burnt wood, which has been found useful as a manure.

1316

WOOD-SORREL

WOOD-SORREL, noun [wood and sorrel.] A plant of the genus Oxalis.

1317

WOOD-SPITE

WOOD-SPITE, noun [wood and spite.] A name given in some parts of England to the green woodpecker.

1318

WOOD-STONE

WOOD-STONE, noun [wood and stone.] A blackish gray silicious stone, a subspecies of horn-stone.

1319

WOOD-WARD

WOOD-WARD, noun [wood and ward.] An officer of the forest, whose duty is to guard the woods.

1320

WOOD-WASH

WOOD-WASH, noun A name sometimes applied to dyers broom.

1321

WOOD-WORM

WOOD-WORM, noun [wood and worm.] A worm that is bread in wood.

1322

WOODCHUK

WOODCHUK, noun [wood and chuk, a hog.] [See Chuk.] The popular name in New England of a species of the Marmot tribe of animals, the Arctomys monax. It burrows and is dormant in ...

1323

WOODED

WOODED, adjective Supplied or covered with wood; as land wooded and watered.