Aloes wood
() See Agalloch. |
Alum stone
() A subsulphate of alumina and potash |
Amazon stone
(n.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color. |
Amboyna wood
() A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. |
Arch stone
() A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch |
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 |
Caen stone
() A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France. |
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. |
Cross-stone
(n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide. |
Dry-stone
(a.) Constructed of uncemented stone. |
Gopher wood
() A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. |
Gravel-stone
(n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone |
Grindle stone
() A grindstone. |
Jew's-stone
(n.) Alt. of Jewstone |
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. |
Perpend stone
() See Perpender. |
Perpent stone
() See Perpender. |
Portland stone
() A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building. |
Pumice stone
() Same as Pumice. |
Purbeck stone
() A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England. |
Rocking-stone
(n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force. |
Ro-setta stone
() A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. |
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. |
Stepping-stone
(n.) A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking. |
Stepping-stone
(n.) Fig.: A means of progress or advancement. |
Stone
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter |
Stone
(n.) A precious stone |
Stone
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: - |
Stone
(n.) The glass of a mirror |
Stone
(n.) A monument to the dead |
Stone
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder |
Stone
(n.) One of the testes |
Stone
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes |
Stone
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. |
Stone
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility |
Stone
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing |
| stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
elaboration
working out | developing in intricate and painstaking detail |
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 |
stone crab
Menippe mercenaria | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) |
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 |
stone curlew
thick-knee
Burhinus oedicnemus | large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint |
| working dog | any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs |
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 |
stonefly
stone fly
plecopteran | primitive winged insect with a flattened body, used as bait by fishermen, aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones |
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 |
stone marten
beech marten
Martes foina | Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat |
stone bass
wreckfish
Polyprion americanus | brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks |
| abrading stone | a primitive stone artifact (usually made of sandstone) used as an abrader |
| Blarney Stone | a stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it |
bore bit
borer
rock drill
stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
capstone
copestone
coping stone
stretcher | a stone that forms the top of wall or building |
driver
number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
| foundation stone | a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building |
jewel
gem
precious stone | a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry |
menhir
standing stone | a tall upright megalith, found primarily in England and northern France |
| metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head |
| paving stone | a stone used for paving |
pit
quarry
stone pit | a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate, a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit' |
rasp
wood file | a coarse file with sharp pointed projections |
revetment
revetement
stone facing | a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment |
| stone | building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose, he wanted a special stone to mark the site |
| stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
| wood | a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots, originally made with a wooden head, metal woods are now standard |