Aids-de-camp
(pl. ) of Aid-de-camp |
Aid-de-camp
(n.) An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements. |
Aloes wood
() See Agalloch. |
Amboyna wood
() A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Beech
(n.) A tree of the genus Fagus. |
Beech tree
() The beech. |
Bethabara wood
() A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. |
Brazil wood
() The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan |
Brazil wood
() 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 Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree |
Calamander wood
() 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 quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood. |
Camp
(n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. |
Camp
(n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. |
Camp
(n.) A single hut or shelter |
Camp
(n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. |
Camp
(n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost |
Camp
(n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. |
Camp
(v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. |
Camp
(v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp |
Camp
(n.) To play the game called camp. |
Campeachy Wood
() Logwood. |
Cocus wood
() A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Concentration
(n.) The act or process of concentrating |
Concentration
(n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation. |
Concentration
(n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water. |
Depending
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depend |
Forest
(n.) An extensive wood |
Forest
(n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. |
Forest
(a.) Of or pertaining to a forest |
Forest
(v. t.) To cover with trees or wood. |
Gopher wood
() A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Kiabooca wood
() See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood
() Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
Life-size
(a.) Of full size |
Lingoa wood
() Amboyna wood. |
Myall wood
() A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla. |
Nicaragua wood
() Brazil wood. |
Omander wood
() The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. |
Rosetta wood
() An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. |
Sapan wood
() A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. |
Sappan wood
() Sapan wood. |
Sea wood louse
() A sea slater. |
Self-depending
(a.) Depending on one's self. |
Shittim wood
(n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Size
(n.) Six. |
Size
(v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. |
Size
(v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. |
Size
(v. t.) To cover with size |
Size
(n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. |
Size
(n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons |
| concentration | strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material |
| concentration | bringing together military forces |
Battle of the Marne
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Meuse
Meuse River
Argonne
Argonne Forest
Meuse-Argonne
Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
pewee
peewee
peewit pewit wood pewee
Contopus virens | small oliveolored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America |
western wood pewee
Contopus sordidulus | small flycatcher of western North America |
wood thrush
Hylocichla mustelina | large thrush common in eastern American woodlands, noted for its melodious song |
| wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix | European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage |
New World warbler
wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
Canada jay
grey jay
gray jay
camp robber
whisker jack
Perisoreus canadensis | a jay of northern North America with blackapped head and no crest, noted for boldness in thievery |
wood swallow
swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
wood-frog
wood frog
Rana sylvatica | wideanging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce |
wood tick
American dog tick
Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
capercaillie
capercailzie
horse of the wood
Tetrao urogallus | large black Old World grouse |
wood pigeon
ringdove cushat
Columba palumbus | Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck |
| wood hoopoe | tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest |
wood duck
summer duck
wood widgeon
Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
| wood drake | male wood duck |
wood ibis wood stork flinthead
Mycteria americana | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downwardurved bill, inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics |
| wood ibis wood stork Ibis ibis | any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
weka
maori hen
wood hen | flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting |
wood ant
Formica rufa | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
| dry-wood termite | any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil |
forest tent caterpillar
Malacosoma disstria | larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent, serious defoliator of deciduous trees |
wood rabbit
cottontail
cottontail rabbit | 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) |
European wood mouse
Apodemus sylvaticus | nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
| wood mouse | any of various New World woodland mice |
wood rat
woodat | 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) |
| dusky-footed wood rat | a wood rat with dusky feet |
forest goat
spindle horn
Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
skunk
polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
stone marten
beech marten
Martes foina | Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat |
| boot camp | camp for training military recruits |
| Buchenwald | a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany |
camp
encampment
cantonment
bivouac | temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers, wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling |
| camp | temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers, level ground is best for parking and camp areas |
| camp | a penal institution (often for forced labor), China has many camps for political prisoners |
| camp summer camp | a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months, city kids get to see the country at a summer camp |
| camp refugee camp | shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs |
| camp chair | a light folding chair |
concentration camp
stockade | a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) |
cot
camp bed | a small bed that folds up for storage or transport |
| day camp | a camp providing care and activities for children during the daytime |
| death camp | a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
driver
number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
labor camp
labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
| metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |
prison camp internment camp
prisoner of war camp
POW camp | a camp for prisoners of war |
rasp
wood file | a coarse file with sharp pointed projections |