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. |
Crack (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts |
Crack (v. t.) To rend with grief or pain |
Crack (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply |
Crack (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously |
Crack (v. t.) To cry up |
Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks |
Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired |
Crack (v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. |
Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words |
Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening |
Crack (n.) Rupture |
Crack (n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report |
Crack (n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty. |
Crack (n.) Mental flaw |
Crack (n.) A crazy or crack-brained person. |
Crack (n.) A boast |
Crack (n.) Breach of chastity. |
Crack (n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. |
Crack (n.) A brief time |
Crack (n.) Free conversation |
Crack (a.) Of superior excellence |
Crack-brained (a.) Having an impaired intellect |
Frost (v. i.) The act of freezing |
Frost (v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water |
Frost (v. i.) Frozen dew |
Frost (v. i.) Coldness or insensibility |
Frost (v. t.) To injure by frost |
Frost (v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost |
Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather. |
Frost-bitten (p. a.) Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing. |
Frost-blite (n.) A plant of the genus Atriplex |
Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album). |
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. |
wag waggle shake | causing to move repeatedly from side to side |
fracture crack cracking | the act of cracking something |
crack fling go pass whirl offer | a usually brief attempt, he took a crack at it, I gave it a whirl |
tremble shiver shake | a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement |
reorganization reorganisation shake-up shakeup | the imposition of a new organization, organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes), a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum, top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup |
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 |
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 |
cutlassfish frost fish hairtail | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth, closely related to snake mackerel |
crack crack cocaine tornado | a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted, highly addictive |
driver number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
gap crack | a narrow opening, he opened the window a crack |
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 |
crack | a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts, there was a crack in the mirror |
wood grain woodgrain woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |
handshake shake handshaking handclasp | grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) |
wisecrack crack sally quip | witty remark |
trill shake | a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it |
crack cracking snap | a sudden sharp noise, the crack of a whip, he heard the cracking of the ice, he can hear the snap of a twig |
milkshake milk shake shake | frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream |
forest wood woods | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area |