Wain″scot (?), n. [OD. waeghe-schot, D. wagen-schot, a clapboard, fr. OD. waeg, weeg, a wall (akin to AS. wah; cf. Icel. veggr) + schot a covering of boards (akin to E. shot, shoot).]
1. Oaken timber or boarding.
A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart.
Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.
2. (Arch.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
3. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of European moths of the family Leucanidæ.
☞ They are reddish or yellowish, streaked or lined with black and white. Their larvæ feed on grasses and sedges.