| Wood, Paul | <person> See: Wood units. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wood, Robert | <person> U.S. Physicist, 1868-1955. See: Wood's glass, Wood's lamp, Wood's light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood-bound | Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-layer | <botany> A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-note | A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. "Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." (Milton) Origin: Wood, n. + note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-sare | <botany> A kind of froth seen on herbs. Origin: Wood + Prov. E. Sare for sore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-sere | The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. Alternative forms: wood-seer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-wash | Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-wax | <botany> Same as Woadwaxen. Origin: AS. Wuduweaxe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-waxen | <botany> Same as Woadwaxen. Origin: AS. Wuduweaxe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodbind | Woodbine. "A garland . . . Of woodbind or hawthorn leaves." (Chaucer) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodbine | <botany> A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle. The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia. "Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture." (Shak) Origin: AS. Wudubind black ivy; so named as binding about trees. See Wood, and Bind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodbury-type | 1. A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. 2. A print from such a plate. Origin: After the name of the inventor, W. Woodbury. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodchat | <ornithology> Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath. A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodchuck | 1. <zoology> A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Synonym: ground hog. 2. <zoology> The yaffle, or green woodpecker. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |