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. |
Cricket (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. |
Cricket (n.) A low stool. |
Cricket (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides. |
Cricket (n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney. |
Cricket (v. i.) To play at cricket. |
Fen cricket () The mole cricket. |
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). |
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. |
Shittim wood (n.) The wood of the shittah tree. |
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. |
Wood-wash (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen |
Wood-wax (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen |
Wood-waxen (n.) Same as Woadwaxen. |
cricket | a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of players, teams take turns trying to score runs |
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 |
cricket frog | either of two frogs with a clicking call |
northern cricket frog Acris crepitans | a cricket frog of eastern and central United States |
eastern cricket frog Acris gryllus | a cricket frog of eastern United States |
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 |
mormon cricket Anabrus simplex | large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States |
sand cricket Jerusalem cricket Stenopelmatus fuscus | large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States |
cricket | leaping insect, male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together |
mole cricket | digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots |
European house cricket Acheta domestica | lives in human dwellings, naturalized in parts of America |
field cricket Acheta assimilis | common American black cricket, attacks crops and also enters dwellings |
tree cricket | pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation |
snowy tree cricket Oecanthus fultoni | pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America |
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 |
cricket ball | the ball used in playing cricket |
cricket bat bat | the club used in playing cricket, a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting |
cricket equipment | sports equipment used in playing cricket |
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 |
wood grain woodgrain woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |