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- English Word Wood tick Definition 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.
- English Word Wood's metal Definition 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¡ to 71¡ C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible.
- English Word Wood-bound Definition Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.
- English Word Wood-layer Definition A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
- English Word Wood-note Definition A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird.
- English Word Wood-sare Definition A kind of froth seen on herbs.
- English Word Wood-sere Definition The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.
- English Word Wood-wash Definition Alt. of Wood-waxen
- English Word Wood-wax Definition Alt. of Wood-waxen
- English Word Wood-waxen Definition Same as Woadwaxen.
- English Word Woodbind Definition Woodbine.
- English Word Woodbine Definition A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.
- English Word Woodbine Definition The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.
- English Word Woodbury-type Definition A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.
- English Word Woodbury-type Definition A print from such a plate.
- English Word Woodchat Definition Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.
- English Word Woodchat Definition A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.
- English Word Woodchuck Definition A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog.
- English Word Woodchuck Definition The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
- English Word Woodcock Definition Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.
- English Word Woodcock Definition Fig.: A simpleton.
- English Word Woodcracker Definition The nuthatch.
- English Word Woodcraft Definition Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods.
- English Word Woodcut Definition An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.
- English Word Woodcutter Definition A person who cuts wood.
- English Word Woodcutter Definition An engraver on wood.
- English Word Woodcutting Definition The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
- English Word Woodcutting Definition The act or art of engraving on wood.
- English Word Wooded Definition of Wood
- English Word Wooded Definition Supplied or covered with wood, or trees; as, land wooded and watered.