| woohoo | <zoology> The sailfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wool | 1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. Wool consists essentially of keratin. 2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. "Wool of bat and tongue of dog." (Shak) 3. <botany> A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass. Mineral wool. See Mineral. Philosopher's wool. <chemistry> See Zinc oxide, under Zinc. Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide. Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool. Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool. Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth. Wool comber. One whose occupation is to comb wool. A machine for combing wool. <botany> Wool grass, a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep. Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. Wool stapler. One who deals in wool. One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes. Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale. Origin: OE. Wolle, wulle, AS. Wull; akin to D. Wol, OHG. Wolla, G. Wolle, Icel. & Sw. Ull, Dan. Uld, Goth, wulla, Lith. Vilna, Russ. Volna, L. Vellus, Skr. Rn wool, to cover, . Cf. Flannel, Velvet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wool ball | A trichophytobezoar formed chiefly of wool and vegetable matter in the stomach of sheep. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wool fat | <physiology> A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally. Under the same name, it is prepared from wool for commercial purposes, and forms an admirable basis for ointments, being readily absorbed by the skin. Origin: L. Lana wool + oleum oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wool maggot | The larva of one of several species of blowflies which deposit eggs on sheep, causing myiasis. Synonym: fleece worm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wool wax | The greasy substance obtained from the wool of the sheep Ovis aries (family Bovidae). Used as an emollient base for creams and ointments. Synonym: hydrous wool fat, lanolin, wool wax. Origin: L. Fat of wool (05 Mar 2000) |
| wool-sorter's disease | A form of anthrax acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracis; there is an initial chill followed by pain in the back and legs, rapid respiration, dyspnea, cough, fever, rapid pulse, and extreme cardiovascular collapse. Synonym: anthrax pneumonia, ragpicker's disease, ragsorter's disease, rag-sorter's disease, wool-sorter's pneumonia, woolsorter's disease, wool-sorter's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wool-sorter's pneumonia | A form of anthrax acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracis; there is an initial chill followed by pain in the back and legs, rapid respiration, dyspnea, cough, fever, rapid pulse, and extreme cardiovascular collapse. Synonym: anthrax pneumonia, ragpicker's disease, ragsorter's disease, rag-sorter's disease, wool-sorter's pneumonia, woolsorter's disease, wool-sorter's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| woold | To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it. Origin: D. Woelen, bewoelen; akin to G. Wuhlen, bewuhlen. 146. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woolder | 1. A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding. 2. One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it. See 1st Top. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woolert | <zoology> The barn owl. Alternative forms: oolert, and owlerd. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Woolf, B | <person> 20th-century British biochemist. See: Woolf-Lineweaver-Burk plot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Woolf-Lineweaver-Burk plot | <statistics> A graph made to analyse how fast an enzyme can convert its substrate into its product, depending on how much substrate is present (its concentration) and to determine its maximum speed (after which the enzyme does not get any faster no matter how high the concentration of substrate gets), called Vmax. It is a plot of 1/v versus 1/[S], where v=rate of product formation and [S]=the concentration of the substrate. Synonym: Lineweaver-Burk plot, Woolf-Lineweaver-Burk plot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| woolfell | A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled. Alternative forms: woolfel. Origin: Wool + fell a skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woolgathering | Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| woodchuck |
Marmota monax, a large, fat, brown rodent of northeastern North America, sometimes a natural reservoir of the plague. Called also groundhog.
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| woodcutter's e. |
tick-borne e.
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| wooden b. |
abdominal rigidity.
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| wooden r. |
vesiculotympanitic r.
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| wooden t. |
actinobacillosis of cattle in which hard tumor-like nodules form inside the tongue; called also timber t.
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| woo | Europe |
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| woo | a sugar extracted from wood or straw |
| woo | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
| woo | any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood |
| woo | large thrush common in eastern American woodlands |
| woo | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
| woo | a red-brown liquid formed in distillation of wood which contains acetic acid, methanol, acetone, wood oils, and tars |
| woo | common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies |
| woo | common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows |
| woo | a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it |
| woo | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
| woo | small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |