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. |
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). |
Lambert pine
() The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. |
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. |
Pine
(n.) Woe |
Pine
(v.) To inflict pain upon |
Pine
(v.) To grieve or mourn for. |
Pine
(v. i.) To suffer |
Pine
(v. i.) To languish |
Pine
(v. i.) To languish with desire |
Pine
(n.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus. |
Pine
(n.) The wood of the pine tree. |
Pine
(n.) A pineapple. |
Pine-clad
(a.) Alt. of Pine-crowned |
Pine-crowned
(a.) Clad or crowned with pine trees |
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. |
Shittim wood
(n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
Slash pine
() A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies |
Thyine wood
() The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. |
Wood
(a.) Mad |
Wood
(v. i.) To grow mad |
Wood
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees |
Wood
(n.) The substance of trees and the like |
Wood
(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. |
Wood
(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. |
Wood
(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for |
Wood
(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood. |
Wood-bound
(a.) Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. |
Wood-layer
(n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. |
Wood-note
(n.) A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. |
Wood-sare
(n.) A kind of froth seen on herbs. |
Wood-sere
(n.) The time when there no sap in the trees |
Wood's metal
() A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66¡ |
Wood tick
() Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata. |
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 |
pine siskin
pine finch
Spinus pinus | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
pine grosbeak
Pinicola enucleator | large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds |
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 |
eastern fence lizard
pine lizard
Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
| pine snake | any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods, now threatened |
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 |
| pine sawyer | large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees |
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 |
pine leaf aphid
Pineus pinifoliae | a variety of adelgid |
| pine spittlebug | North American insect that attacks pines |
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 |
pine vole
pine mouse
Pitymys pinetorum | short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States |
skunk
polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
pine marten
Martes martes | dark brown marten of northern Eurasian coniferous forests |
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 |
| pine-tar rag | baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar, used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip |
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 |
wood grain
woodgrain
woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |
pine nut
pignolia
pinon nut | edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America |
forest
wood
woods | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area |
| Pine Bluff | a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River |
Maine
Pine Tree State
ME | a state in New England |
dryad
wood nymph | a deity or nymph of the woods |