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. |
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. |
Campeachy Wood () Logwood. |
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. |
Direction (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering |
Direction (n.) That which is imposed by directing |
Direction (n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent |
Direction (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing |
Direction (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise |
Direction (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis |
Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Grain (v. & n.) See Groan. |
Grain (n.) A single small hard seed |
Grain (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves |
Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc. |
Grain (n.) The unit of the English system of weights |
Grain (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes |
Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance |
Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. |
Grain (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. |
Grain (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. |
Grain (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation |
Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4. |
Grain (a.) Temper |
Grain (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. |
Grain (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. |
Grain (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains. |
Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins) |
Grain (n.) To yield fruit. |
Grain (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization |
Grain (n.) A branch of a tree |
Grain (n.) A tine, prong, or fork. |
Grain (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river. |
Grain (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points. |
Grain (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc. |
Grain (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core. |
Kiabooca wood () See Kyaboca wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Amboyna wood. |
Kyaboca wood () Sandalwood (Santalum album). |
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. |
Orientation (n.) The act or process of orientating |
Orientation (n.) The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis. |
Orientation (n.) An aspect or fronting to the east |
change of direction reorientation | the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented |
steering guidance direction | the act of setting and holding a course, a new council was installed under the direction of the king |
orientation course orientation | a course introducing a new situation or environment |
orientation | the act of orienting |
management direction | the act of managing something, he was given overall management of the program, is the direction of the economy a function of government? |
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 |
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 |
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 |
grain moth | moth whose larvae feed on grain |
angoumois moth angoumois grain moth Sitotroga cerealella | small moth whose larvae feed on kernels of stored grains |
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 |
skunk polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
direction finder | radio, determines the direction of incoming radio waves |
driver number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |
rasp wood file | a coarse file with sharp pointed projections |
wood | a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots, originally made with a wooden head, metal woods are now standard |
wood chisel | a chisel for working wood, it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand |
woodcut wood block wood engraving | engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it, used to make prints |
woodcut wood engraving | a print made from a woodcut |
wood vise woodworking vise shoulder vise | a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it |
woodwind woodwind instrument wood | any wind instrument other than the brass instruments |
texture grain | the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance), breadfruit has the same texture as bread, sand of a fine grain, fish with a delicate flavor and texture, a stone of coarse grain |
grain | the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric, saw the board across the grain |
wood grain woodgrain woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |
grain | the smallest possible unit of anything, there was a grain of truth in what he said, he does not have a grain of sense |
orientation | a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships |
sense of direction | an awareness of your orientation in space |
focus focusing focussing focal point direction centering | the concentration of attention or energy on something, the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology, he had no direction in his life |
ethic moral principle value-system value orientation | the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group, the Puritan ethic, a person with old-fashioned values |