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- English Word Woo Definition To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
- English Word Woo Definition To court; to make love.
- English Word Wood Definition Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
- English Word Wood Definition To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
- English Word Wood Definition A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
- English Word Wood Definition The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
- English Word Wood Definition 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.
- English Word Wood Definition Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
- English Word Wood Definition To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
- English Word Wood Definition To take or get a supply of wood.
- 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.