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   wet bar
         n 1: a bar for mixing drinks that has a sink with running water

English Dictionary: white fir by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
what for
n
  1. a strong reprimand
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whatever
adj
  1. one or some or every or all without specification; "give me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left"; "any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't want"; "no milk whatsoever is left"
    Synonym(s): any(a), whatever, whatsoever
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whatever may come
adv
  1. in spite of all obstacles; "we'll go to Tibet come hell or high water"
    Synonym(s): come hell or high water, no matter what happens, whatever may come
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wheat beer
n
  1. a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent
    Synonym(s): Weissbier, white beer, wheat beer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wheat berry
n
  1. a grain of wheat
  2. grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
    Synonym(s): wheat, wheat berry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white beer
n
  1. a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent
    Synonym(s): Weissbier, white beer, wheat beer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white birch
n
  1. European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
    Synonym(s): downy birch, white birch, Betula pubescens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white bread
n
  1. bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
    Synonym(s): white bread, light bread
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white broom
n
  1. low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish- white flowers
    Synonym(s): white broom, white Spanish broom, Cytisus albus, Cytisus multiflorus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white bryony
n
  1. white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran
    Synonym(s): white bryony, devil's turnip, Bryonia alba
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white Burgundy
n
  1. dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it
    Synonym(s): Chablis, white Burgundy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white fairy lantern
n
  1. globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern California
    Synonym(s): white globe lily, white fairy lantern, Calochortus albus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white fir
n
  1. medium to tall fir of central to western United States having a narrow erect crown and soft wood
    Synonym(s): white fir, Colorado fir, California white fir, Abies concolor, Abies lowiana
  2. medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed
    Synonym(s): amabilis fir, white fir, Pacific silver fir, red silver fir, Christmas tree, Abies amabilis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
White Friar
n
  1. a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
    Synonym(s): Carmelite, White Friar
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white fringed orchid
n
  1. bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers
    Synonym(s): white fringed orchis, white fringed orchid, Habenaria albiflora
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white fringed orchis
n
  1. bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers
    Synonym(s): white fringed orchis, white fringed orchid, Habenaria albiflora
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white fritillary
n
  1. California herb with white conic or bell-shaped flowers usually tinged with green
    Synonym(s): white fritillary, Fritillaria liliaceae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white perch
n
  1. small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
    Synonym(s): white perch, silver perch, Morone americana
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
White person
n
  1. a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: White, {White person}, Caucasian]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white prairie aster
n
  1. perennial of western North America having white flowers
    Synonym(s): white prairie aster, Aster falcatus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white-berry yew
n
  1. yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries
    Synonym(s): white-berry yew, Pseudotaxus chienii
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white-bread
adj
  1. of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class; "white-bread America"; "a white-bread college student"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
white-breasted nuthatch
n
  1. bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast; of eastern North America
    Synonym(s): white-breasted nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whitebark pine
n
  1. small pine of western North America; having smooth grey- white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine
    Synonym(s): whitebark pine, whitebarked pine, Pinus albicaulis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whitebarked pine
n
  1. small pine of western North America; having smooth grey- white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine
    Synonym(s): whitebark pine, whitebarked pine, Pinus albicaulis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
widow bird
n
  1. mostly black African weaverbird [syn: whydah, whidah, widow bird]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wood fern
n
  1. any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris [syn: {wood fern}, wood-fern, woodfern]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wood frog
n
  1. wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce
    Synonym(s): wood-frog, wood frog, Rana sylvatica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wood-burning
adj
  1. fueled by wood; "a wood-burning stove' [syn: {wood- fired}, wood-burning]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wood-fern
n
  1. any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris [syn: {wood fern}, wood-fern, woodfern]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wood-fired
adj
  1. fueled by wood; "a wood-burning stove' [syn: {wood- fired}, wood-burning]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wood-frog
n
  1. wide-ranging light-brown frog of moist North American woodlands especially spruce
    Synonym(s): wood-frog, wood frog, Rana sylvatica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woodborer
n
  1. any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood
    Synonym(s): woodborer, borer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Woodbury
n
  1. United States social economist (1876-1933) [syn: Woodbury, Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woodfern
n
  1. any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris [syn: {wood fern}, wood-fern, woodfern]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woody pear
n
  1. tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp
    Synonym(s): native pear, woody pear, Xylomelum pyriforme
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weet-bird \Weet"-bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The wryneck; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wetbird \Wet"bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain. [Prov.
      Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whatever \What*ev"er\, pron.
      Anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being
      this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another;
      anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all
      particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively.
  
               Whatever fortune stays from his word.      --Shak.
  
               Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields. --Milton.
  
               Whatever be its intrinsic value.            --J. H.
                                                                              Newman.
  
      Note: Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically.
               [bd]There being no room for any physical discovery
               whatever[b8] [sc. it may be]. --Whately.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wheatbird \Wheat"bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whidah bird \Whid"ah bird`\, (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to
      the genus {Vidua}, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding
      season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called
      also {vida finch}, {whidah finch}, {whydah bird}, {whydah
      finch}, {widow bird}, and {widow finch}.
  
      Note: Some of the species are often kept as cage birds,
               especially {Vidua paradisea}, which is dark brownish
               above, pale buff beneath, with a reddish collar around
               the neck.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White \White\, a. [Compar. {Whiter}; superl. {Whitest}.] [OE.
      whit, AS. hw[?]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[c6]t, D. wit, G.
      weiss, OHG. w[c6]z, hw[c6]z, Icel. hv[c6]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan.
      hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ.
      sviet' light, Skr. [?]v[?]ta white, [?]vit to be bright.
      [?][?][?]. Cf. {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.]
      1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
            combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
            their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
            the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as, white paper; a
            white skin. [bd]Pearls white.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.
  
      2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
            blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  
                     Or whispering with white lips, [bd]The foe! They
                     come! they come![b8]                           --Byron.
  
      3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
            from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  
                     White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.
  
                     No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.
  
      4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  
                     Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old
                     and white as this.                              --Shak.
  
      5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
            like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  
                     On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
                     one of the white days of his life.      --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  
                     Come forth, my white spouse.               --Chaucer.
  
                     I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.
  
      Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
               white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.
  
      {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under
            {Pepper}.
  
      {White ant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of social
            pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These
            insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
            large and complex communities consisting of numerous
            asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
            asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
            (or fertile females) often having the body enormously
            distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
            winged males, together with the larv[91] and pup[91] of
            each kind in various stages of development. Many of the
            species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes
            in the form of domelike structures rising several feet
            above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean
            galleries and chambers. In their social habits they
            closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and
            vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber,
            and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture.
           
  
      {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a
            substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
            luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
            deadly poison.
  
      {White bass} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water North American bass
            ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes.
  
      {White bear} (Zo[94]l.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}.
           
  
      {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White brand} (Zo[94]l.), the snow goose.
  
      {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper.
  
      {White campion}. (Bot.)
            (a) A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white
                  flowers.
            (b) A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}).
  
      {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.
  
      {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various
            of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
            obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
            in white.
  
      {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
            ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
            thyoides}, or {Cham[91]cyparis sph[91]roidea}, a slender
            evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
            swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
            valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
            given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
            is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
            --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
            lofty tree ({Icica, [or] Bursera, altissima}) whose
            fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is
            not attacked by insect.
  
      {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocyth[91]mia.
  
      {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
            bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
            cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
            under {Clover}.
  
      {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
            silver}, under {German}.
  
      {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
            coquimbite.
  
      {White coral} (Zo[94]l.), an ornamental branched coral
            ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean.
  
      {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cricket} (Zo[94]l.), the tree cricket.
  
      {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
            becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
            oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
           
  
      {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
            having white berries.
  
      {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}.
  
      {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
            mines. --Raymond.
  
      {White elephant} (Zo[94]l.), a whitish, or albino, variety of
            the Asiatic elephant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Polar \Po"lar\, a. [Cf. F. polaire. See {Pole} of the earth.]
      1. Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a
            sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the
            poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to
            which the magnetic needle is directed.
  
      3. (Geom.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common
            radiating point; as, polar co[94]rdinates.
  
      {Polar axis}, that axis of an astronomical instrument, as an
            equatorial, which is parallel to the earths axis.
  
      {Polar bear} (Zo[94]l.), a large bear ({Ursus, [or]
            Thalarctos, maritimus}) inhabiting the arctic regions. It
            sometimes measures nearly nine feet in length and weighs
            1,600 pounds. It is partially amphibious, very powerful,
            and the most carnivorous of all the bears. The fur is
            white, tinged with yellow. Called also {White bear}. See
            {Bear}.
  
      {Polar body}, {cell}, [or] {globule} (Biol.), a minute cell
            which separates by karyokinesis from the ovum during its
            maturation. In the maturation of ordinary ova two polar
            bodies are formed, but in parthogenetic ova only one. The
            first polar body formed is usually larger than the second
            one, and often divides into two after its separation from
            the ovum. Each of the polar bodies removes maternal
            chromatin from the ovum to make room for the chromatin of
            the fertilizing spermatozo[94]n; but their functions are
            not fully understood.
  
      {Polar circles} (Astron. & Geog.), two circles, each at a
            distance from a pole of the earth equal to the obliquity
            of the ecliptic, or about 23[deg] 28[b7], the northern
            called the arctic circle, and the southern the antarctic
            circle.
  
      {Polar clock}, a tube, containing a polarizing apparatus,
            turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and
            indicating the hour of the day on an hour circle, by being
            turned toward the plane of maximum polarization of the
            light of the sky, which is always 90[deg] from the sun.
  
      {Polar co[94]rdinates}. See under 3d {Co[94]rdinate}.
  
      {Polar dial}, a dial whose plane is parallel to a great
            circle passing through the poles of the earth. --Math.
            Dict.
  
      {Polar distance}, the angular distance of any point on a
            sphere from one of its poles, particularly of a heavenly
            body from the north pole of the heavens.
  
      {Polar equation of a line} [or] {surface}, an equation which
            expresses the relation between the polar co[94]rdinates of
            every point of the line or surface.
  
      {Polar forces} (Physics), forces that are developed and act
            in pairs, with opposite tendencies or properties in the
            two elements, as magnetism, electricity, etc.
  
      {Polar hare} (Zo[94]l.), a large hare of Arctic America
            ({Lepus arcticus}), which turns pure white in winter. It
            is probably a variety of the common European hare ({L.
            timidus}).
  
      {Polar lights}, the aurora borealis or australis.
  
      {Polar}, [or] {Polaric}, {opposition} [or] {contrast}
            (Logic), an opposition or contrast made by the existence
            of two opposite conceptions which are the extremes in a
            species, as white and black in colors; hence, as great an
            opposition or contrast as possible.
  
      {Polar projection}. See under {Projection}.
  
      {Polar spherical triangle} (Spherics), a spherical triangle
            whose three angular points are poles of the sides of a
            given triangle. See 4th {Pole}, 2.
  
      {Polar whale} (Zo[94]l.), the right whale, or bowhead. See
            {Whale}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White \White\, a. [Compar. {Whiter}; superl. {Whitest}.] [OE.
      whit, AS. hw[?]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[c6]t, D. wit, G.
      weiss, OHG. w[c6]z, hw[c6]z, Icel. hv[c6]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan.
      hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ.
      sviet' light, Skr. [?]v[?]ta white, [?]vit to be bright.
      [?][?][?]. Cf. {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.]
      1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
            combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
            their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
            the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as, white paper; a
            white skin. [bd]Pearls white.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.
  
      2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
            blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  
                     Or whispering with white lips, [bd]The foe! They
                     come! they come![b8]                           --Byron.
  
      3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
            from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  
                     White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.
  
                     No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.
  
      4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  
                     Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old
                     and white as this.                              --Shak.
  
      5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
            like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  
                     On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
                     one of the white days of his life.      --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  
                     Come forth, my white spouse.               --Chaucer.
  
                     I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.
  
      Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
               white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.
  
      {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under
            {Pepper}.
  
      {White ant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of social
            pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These
            insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
            large and complex communities consisting of numerous
            asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
            asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
            (or fertile females) often having the body enormously
            distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
            winged males, together with the larv[91] and pup[91] of
            each kind in various stages of development. Many of the
            species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes
            in the form of domelike structures rising several feet
            above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean
            galleries and chambers. In their social habits they
            closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and
            vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber,
            and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture.
           
  
      {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a
            substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
            luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
            deadly poison.
  
      {White bass} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water North American bass
            ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes.
  
      {White bear} (Zo[94]l.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}.
           
  
      {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White brand} (Zo[94]l.), the snow goose.
  
      {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper.
  
      {White campion}. (Bot.)
            (a) A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white
                  flowers.
            (b) A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}).
  
      {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.
  
      {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various
            of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
            obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
            in white.
  
      {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
            ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
            thyoides}, or {Cham[91]cyparis sph[91]roidea}, a slender
            evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
            swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
            valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
            given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
            is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
            --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
            lofty tree ({Icica, [or] Bursera, altissima}) whose
            fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is
            not attacked by insect.
  
      {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocyth[91]mia.
  
      {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
            bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
            cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
            under {Clover}.
  
      {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
            silver}, under {German}.
  
      {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
            coquimbite.
  
      {White coral} (Zo[94]l.), an ornamental branched coral
            ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean.
  
      {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cricket} (Zo[94]l.), the tree cricket.
  
      {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
            becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
            oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
           
  
      {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
            having white berries.
  
      {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}.
  
      {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
            mines. --Raymond.
  
      {White elephant} (Zo[94]l.), a whitish, or albino, variety of
            the Asiatic elephant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Snow \Snow\, n. [OE. snow, snaw, AS. sn[be]w; akin to D. sneeuw,
      OS. & OHG. sn[emac]o, G. schnee, Icel. sn[ae]r, snj[omac]r,
      snaj[be]r, Sw. sn[94], Dan. snee, Goth. snaiws, Lith.
      sn[89]gas, Russ. snieg', Ir. & Gael. sneachd, W. nyf, L. nix,
      nivis, Gr. acc. ni`fa, also AS. sn[c6]wan to snow, G.
      schneien, OHG. sn[c6]wan, Lith. snigti, L. ningit it snows,
      Gr. ni`fei, Zend snizh to snow; cf. Skr. snih to be wet or
      sticky. [root]172.]
      1. Watery particles congealed into white or transparent
            crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth,
            exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect
            forms.
  
      Note: Snow is often used to form compounds, most of which are
               of obvious meaning; as, snow-capped, snow-clad,
               snow-cold, snow-crowned, snow-crust, snow-fed,
               snow-haired, snowlike, snow-mantled, snow-nodding,
               snow-wrought, and the like.
  
      2. Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color
            (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in,
            flakes.
  
                     The field of snow with eagle of black therein.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      {Red snow}. See under {Red}.
  
      {Snow bunting}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Snowbird}, 1.
  
      {Snow cock} (Zo[94]l.), the snow pheasant.
  
      {Snow flea} (Zo[94]l.), a small black leaping poduran
            ({Achorutes nivicola}) often found in winter on the snow
            in vast numbers.
  
      {Snow flood}, a flood from melted snow.
  
      {Snow flower} (Bot.), the fringe tree.
  
      {Snow fly}, [or] {Snow insect} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several
            species of neuropterous insects of the genus {Boreus}. The
            male has rudimentary wings; the female is wingless. These
            insects sometimes appear creeping and leaping on the snow
            in great numbers.
  
      {Snow gnat} (Zo[94]l.), any wingless dipterous insect of the
            genus {Chionea} found running on snow in winter.
  
      {Snow goose} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of arctic
            geese of the genus {Chen}. The common snow goose ({Chen
            hyperborea}), common in the Western United States in
            winter, is white, with the tips of the wings black and
            legs and bill red. Called also {white brant}, {wavey}, and
            {Texas goose}. The blue, or blue-winged, snow goose ({C.
            c[d2]rulescens}) is varied with grayish brown and bluish
            gray, with the wing quills black and the head and upper
            part of the neck white. Called also {white head},
            {white-headed goose}, and {bald brant}.
  
      {Snow leopard} (Zool.), the ounce.
  
      {Snow line}, lowest limit of perpetual snow. In the Alps this
            is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, in the Andes, at the
            equator, 16,000 feet.
  
      {Snow mouse} (Zo[94]l.), a European vole ({Arvicola nivalis})
            which inhabits the Alps and other high mountains.
  
      {Snow pheasant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            large, handsome gallinaceous birds of the genus
            {Tetraogallus}, native of the lofty mountains of Asia. The
            Himalayn snow pheasant ({T. Himalayensis}) in the
            best-known species. Called also {snow cock}, and {snow
            chukor}.
  
      {Snow partridge}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Partridge}.
  
      {Snow pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), a pigeon ({Columba leuconota})
            native of the Himalaya mountains. Its back, neck, and rump
            are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are
            black.
  
      {Snow plant} (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb ({Sarcodes
            sanguinea}) growing in the coniferous forests of
            California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled
            to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots
            up.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White \White\, a. [Compar. {Whiter}; superl. {Whitest}.] [OE.
      whit, AS. hw[?]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[c6]t, D. wit, G.
      weiss, OHG. w[c6]z, hw[c6]z, Icel. hv[c6]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan.
      hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ.
      sviet' light, Skr. [?]v[?]ta white, [?]vit to be bright.
      [?][?][?]. Cf. {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.]
      1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
            combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
            their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
            the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as, white paper; a
            white skin. [bd]Pearls white.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.
  
      2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
            blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  
                     Or whispering with white lips, [bd]The foe! They
                     come! they come![b8]                           --Byron.
  
      3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
            from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  
                     White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.
  
                     No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.
  
      4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  
                     Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old
                     and white as this.                              --Shak.
  
      5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
            like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  
                     On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
                     one of the white days of his life.      --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  
                     Come forth, my white spouse.               --Chaucer.
  
                     I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.
  
      Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
               white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.
  
      {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under
            {Pepper}.
  
      {White ant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of social
            pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These
            insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
            large and complex communities consisting of numerous
            asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
            asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
            (or fertile females) often having the body enormously
            distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
            winged males, together with the larv[91] and pup[91] of
            each kind in various stages of development. Many of the
            species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes
            in the form of domelike structures rising several feet
            above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean
            galleries and chambers. In their social habits they
            closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and
            vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber,
            and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture.
           
  
      {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a
            substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
            luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
            deadly poison.
  
      {White bass} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water North American bass
            ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes.
  
      {White bear} (Zo[94]l.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}.
           
  
      {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White brand} (Zo[94]l.), the snow goose.
  
      {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper.
  
      {White campion}. (Bot.)
            (a) A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white
                  flowers.
            (b) A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}).
  
      {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.
  
      {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various
            of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
            obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
            in white.
  
      {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
            ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
            thyoides}, or {Cham[91]cyparis sph[91]roidea}, a slender
            evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
            swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
            valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
            given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
            is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
            --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
            lofty tree ({Icica, [or] Bursera, altissima}) whose
            fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is
            not attacked by insect.
  
      {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocyth[91]mia.
  
      {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
            bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
            cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
            under {Clover}.
  
      {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
            silver}, under {German}.
  
      {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
            coquimbite.
  
      {White coral} (Zo[94]l.), an ornamental branched coral
            ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean.
  
      {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cricket} (Zo[94]l.), the tree cricket.
  
      {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
            becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
            oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
           
  
      {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
            having white berries.
  
      {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}.
  
      {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
            mines. --Raymond.
  
      {White elephant} (Zo[94]l.), a whitish, or albino, variety of
            the Asiatic elephant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bryony \Bry"o*ny\ (br[imac]"[osl]*n[ycr]), n. [L. bryonia, Gr.
      brywni`a, fr. bry`ein to swell, esp. of plants.] (Bot.)
      The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus
      {Bryonia}. The root of {B. alba} (rough or {white bryony})
      and of {B. dioica} is a strong, irritating cathartic.
  
      {Black bryony}, a plant ({Tamus communis}) so named from its
            dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.

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      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White friar \White" fri`ar\ (Eccl.)
      A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the
      white cloaks worn by the order. See {Carmelite}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Frost \Frost\, n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr.
      fre[a2]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel.,
      Dan., & Sw. frost. [fb]18. See {Freeze}, v. i.]
      1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation
            of water; congelation of fluids.
  
      2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions
            congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or
            freezing weather.
  
                     The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. Frozen dew; -- called also {hoarfrost} or {white frost}.
  
                     He scattereth the frost like ashes.   --Ps. cxlvii.
                                                                              16.
  
      4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of
            character. [R.]
  
                     It was of those moments of intense feeling when the
                     frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow
                     wreath.                                             --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      {Black frost}, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and
            cause it to turn black, without the formation of
            hoarfrost.
  
      {Frost bearer} (Physics), a philosophical instrument
            illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a
            cryophous.
  
      {Frost grape} (Bot.), an American grape, with very small,
            acid berries.
  
      {Frost lamp}, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand
            lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used
            especially in lighthouses. --Knight.
  
      {Frost nail}, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's
            shoe to keen him from slipping.
  
      {Frost smoke}, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by
            congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe
            cold.
  
                     The brig and the ice round her are covered by a
                     strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of
                     arctic winters.                                 --Kane.
  
      {Frost valve}, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe,
            hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to
            freeze.
  
      {Jack Frost}, a popular personification of frost.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Frost \Frost\, n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr.
      fre[a2]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel.,
      Dan., & Sw. frost. [fb]18. See {Freeze}, v. i.]
      1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation
            of water; congelation of fluids.
  
      2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions
            congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or
            freezing weather.
  
                     The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. Frozen dew; -- called also {hoarfrost} or {white frost}.
  
                     He scattereth the frost like ashes.   --Ps. cxlvii.
                                                                              16.
  
      4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of
            character. [R.]
  
                     It was of those moments of intense feeling when the
                     frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow
                     wreath.                                             --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      {Black frost}, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and
            cause it to turn black, without the formation of
            hoarfrost.
  
      {Frost bearer} (Physics), a philosophical instrument
            illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a
            cryophous.
  
      {Frost grape} (Bot.), an American grape, with very small,
            acid berries.
  
      {Frost lamp}, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand
            lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used
            especially in lighthouses. --Knight.
  
      {Frost nail}, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's
            shoe to keen him from slipping.
  
      {Frost smoke}, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by
            congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe
            cold.
  
                     The brig and the ice round her are covered by a
                     strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of
                     arctic winters.                                 --Kane.
  
      {Frost valve}, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe,
            hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to
            freeze.
  
      {Jack Frost}, a popular personification of frost.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Perch \Perch\ (p[etil]rch), n. [Written also {pearch}.] [OE.
      perche, F. perche, L. perca, fr. Gr. pe`rkh; cf. perkno`s
      dark-colored, Skr. p[rsdot][cced]ni spotted, speckled, and E.
      freckle.] (Zo[94]l.)
      1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several
            other allied genera of the family {Percid[91]}, as the
            common American or yellow perch ({Perca flavescens, [or]
            Americana}), and the European perch ({P. fluviatilis}).
  
      2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes
            belonging to the {Percid[91]}, {Serranid[91]}, and related
            families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
  
      {Black perch}.
            (a) The black bass.
            (b) The flasher.
            (c) The sea bass.
  
      {Blue perch}, the cunner.
  
      {Gray perch}, the fresh-water drum.
  
      {Red perch}, the rosefish.
  
      {Red-bellied perch}, the long-eared pondfish.
  
      {Perch pest}, a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of
            the perch.
  
      {Silver perch}, the yellowtail.
  
      {Stone}, [or] {Striped}, {perch}, the pope.
  
      {White perch}, the {Roccus, [or] Morone, Americanus}, a small
            silvery serranoid market fish of the Atlantic coast.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White person \White person\
      A person of the Caucasian race (--6 Fed. Rep. 256).
  
      Note: In the time of slavery in the United States white
               person was generally construed as a person without
               admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and
               decisions in different States since 1865 white person
               is construed as in effect: one not having any negro
               blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of
               negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn.,
               Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less
               than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having
               less than one half (Ohio).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {White elm} (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus
            Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of
            wheels, and for other purposes.
  
      {White ensign}. See {Saint George's ensign}, under {Saint}.
           
  
      {White feather}, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show
            the white feather}, under {Feather}, n.
  
      {White fir} (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees
            of the Pacific States, as {Abies grandis}, and {A.
            concolor}.
  
      {White flesher} (Zo[94]l.), the ruffed grouse. See under
            {Ruffed}. [Canada]
  
      {White frost}. See {Hoarfrost}.
  
      {White game} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White garnet} (Min.), leucite.
  
      {White grass} (Bot.), an American grass ({Leersia Virginica})
            with greenish-white pale[91].
  
      {White grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The white ptarmigan.
            (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {White grub} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the June bug and other
            allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and
            other plants, and often do much damage.
  
      {White hake} (Zo[94]l.), the squirrel hake. See under
            {Squirrel}.
  
      {White hawk}, [or] {kite} (Zo[94]l.), the hen harrier.
  
      {White heat}, the temperature at which bodies become
            incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which
            they emit.
  
      {White hellebore} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Veratrum}
            ({V. album}) See {Hellebore}, 2.
  
      {White herring}, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as
            distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak.
  
      {White hoolet} (Zo[94]l.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White horses} (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps.
  
      {The White House}. See under {House}.
  
      {White ibis} (Zo[94]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
            having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
            wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
            the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.
           
  
      {White iron}.
            (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron.
            (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large
                  proportion of combined carbon.
  
      {White iron pyrites} (Min.), marcasite.
  
      {White land}, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry,
            but blackish after rain. [Eng.]
  
      {White lark} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting.
  
      {White lead}.
            (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for
                  other purposes; ceruse.
            (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite.
  
      {White leather}, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and
            salt.
  
      {White leg} (Med.), milk leg. See under {Milk}.
  
      {White lettuce} (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under
            {Rattlesnake}.
  
      {White lie}. See under {Lie}.
  
      {White light}.
            (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the
                  same proportion as in the light coming directly from
                  the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing
                  through a prism. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1.
            (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white
                  illumination for signals, etc.
  
      {White lime}, a solution or preparation of lime for
            whitewashing; whitewash.
  
      {White line} (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line,
            on a printed page; a blank line.
  
      {White meat}.
            (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry.
            (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc.
  
                           Driving their cattle continually with them, and
                           feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      {White merganser} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White metal}.
            (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia,
                  etc.
            (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a
                  certain stage in copper smelting.
  
      {White miller}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common clothes moth.
            (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
                  Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
                  spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
                  moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
      {White money}, silver money.
  
      {White mouse} (Zo[94]l.), the albino variety of the common
            mouse.
  
      {White mullet} (Zo[94]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
            ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
            called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.
  
      {White nun} (Zo[94]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
            crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
            head, which give the appearance of a hood.
  
      {White oak}. (Bot.) See under {Oak}.
  
      {White owl}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The snowy owl.
            (b) The barn owl.
  
      {White partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan.
  
      {White perch}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone Americana})
                  valued as a food fish.
            (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum.
            (c) Any California surf fish.
  
      {White pine}. (Bot.) See the Note under {Pine}.
  
      {White poplar} (Bot.), a European tree ({Populus alba}) often
            cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele.
  
      {White poppy} (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See {Poppy}.
           
  
      {White powder}, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to
            exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A pistol charged with white powder.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {White precipitate}. (Old Chem.) See under {Precipitate}.
  
      {White rabbit}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
            (b) An albino rabbit.
  
      {White rent},
            (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
                  opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
            (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
                  every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
                  Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {White rhinoceros}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros
                  Indicus}). See {Rhinoceros}.
            (b) The umhofo.
  
      {White ribbon}, the distinctive badge of certain
            organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral
            purity; as, the White-ribbon Army.
  
      {White rope} (Naut.), untarred hemp rope.
  
      {White rot}. (Bot.)
            (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and
                  butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease
                  called rot in sheep.
            (b) A disease of grapes. See {White rot}, under {Rot}.
  
      {White sage} (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia
            lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter
            fat}.
  
      {White salmon} (Zo[94]l.), the silver salmon.
  
      {White salt}, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt.
  
      {White scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus Nerii})
            injurious to the orange tree. See {Orange scale}, under
            {Orange}.
  
      {White shark} (Zo[94]l.), a species of man-eating shark. See
            under {Shark}.
  
      {White softening}. (Med.) See {Softening of the brain}, under
            {Softening}.
  
      {White spruce}. (Bot.) See {Spruce}, n., 1.
  
      {White squall} (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious
            blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach
            otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on
            the surface of the sea.
  
      {White staff}, the badge of the lord high treasurer of
            England. --Macaulay.
  
      {White stork} (Zo[94]l.), the common European stork.
  
      {White sturgeon}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Shovelnose}
            (d) .
  
      {White sucker}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The common sucker.
            (b) The common red horse ({Moxostoma macrolepidotum}).
  
      {White swelling} (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee,
            produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial
            membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of
            the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also
            to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind.
  
      {White tombac}. See {Tombac}.
  
      {White trout} (Zo[94]l.), the white weakfish, or silver
            squeteague ({Cynoscion nothus}), of the Southern United
            States.
  
      {White vitriol} (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White
            vitriol}, under {Vitriol}.
  
      {White wagtail} (Zo[94]l.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
  
      {White wax}, beeswax rendered white by bleaching.
  
      {White whale} (Zo[94]l.), the beluga.
  
      {White widgeon} (Zo[94]l.), the smew.
  
      {White wine}. any wine of a clear, transparent color,
            bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; --
            distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and
            Burgundy. [bd]White wine of Lepe.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      {White witch}, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers
            are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent
            purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather.
  
      {White wolf}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A light-colored wolf ({Canis laniger}) native of
                  Thibet; -- called also {chanco}, {golden wolf}, and
                  {Thibetan wolf}.
            (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf.
  
      {White wren} (Zo[94]l.), the willow warbler; -- so called
            from the color of the under parts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Precipitate \Pre*cip"i*tate\, n. [NL. praecipitatum: cf. F.
      pr[82]cipit[82].]
      1. (Chem.) An insoluble substance separated from a solution
            in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to
            the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The
            precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may
            be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near
            the surface.
  
      {Red precipitate} (Old. Chem), mercuric oxide ({HgO}) a heavy
            red crystalline powder obtained by heating mercuric
            nitrate, or by heating mercury in the air. Prepared in the
            latter manner, it was the {precipitate per se} of the
            alchemists.
  
      {White precipitate} (Old Chem.)
            (a) A heavy white amorphous powder ({NH2.HgCl}) obtained
                  by adding ammonia to a solution of mercuric chloride
                  or corrosive sublimate; -- formerly called also
                  {infusible white precipitate}, and now {amido-mercuric
                  chloride}.
            (b) A white crystalline substance obtained by adding a
                  solution of corrosive sublimate to a solution of sal
                  ammoniac (ammonium chloride); -- formerly called also
                  {fusible white precipitate}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whitebeard \White"beard`\, n.
      An old man; a graybeard.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White-fronted \White`-front"ed\, a.
      Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
  
      {White-fronted goose} (Zo[94]l.), the white brant, or snow
            goose. See {Snow goose}, under {Snow}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White-fronted \White`-front"ed\, a.
      Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
  
      {White-fronted goose} (Zo[94]l.), the white brant, or snow
            goose. See {Snow goose}, under {Snow}.

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   Whity-brown \Whit"y-brown`\, a.
      Of a color between white and brown. --Pegge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whidah bird \Whid"ah bird`\, (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to
      the genus {Vidua}, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding
      season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called
      also {vida finch}, {whidah finch}, {whydah bird}, {whydah
      finch}, {widow bird}, and {widow finch}.
  
      Note: Some of the species are often kept as cage birds,
               especially {Vidua paradisea}, which is dark brownish
               above, pale buff beneath, with a reddish collar around
               the neck.

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   Whydah bird \Whyd"ah bird`\, [or] Whydah finch \Whyd"ah finch`\
      (Zo[94]l.)
      The whidah bird.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whidah bird \Whid"ah bird`\, (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to
      the genus {Vidua}, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding
      season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called
      also {vida finch}, {whidah finch}, {whydah bird}, {whydah
      finch}, {widow bird}, and {widow finch}.
  
      Note: Some of the species are often kept as cage birds,
               especially {Vidua paradisea}, which is dark brownish
               above, pale buff beneath, with a reddish collar around
               the neck.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whydah bird \Whyd"ah bird`\, [or] Whydah finch \Whyd"ah finch`\
      (Zo[94]l.)
      The whidah bird.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whidah bird \Whid"ah bird`\, (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to
      the genus {Vidua}, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding
      season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called
      also {vida finch}, {whidah finch}, {whydah bird}, {whydah
      finch}, {widow bird}, and {widow finch}.
  
      Note: Some of the species are often kept as cage birds,
               especially {Vidua paradisea}, which is dark brownish
               above, pale buff beneath, with a reddish collar around
               the neck.

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   Widow bird \Wid"ow bird`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      See {Whidan bird}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Whidah bird \Whid"ah bird`\, (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to
      the genus {Vidua}, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding
      season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called
      also {vida finch}, {whidah finch}, {whydah bird}, {whydah
      finch}, {widow bird}, and {widow finch}.
  
      Note: Some of the species are often kept as cage birds,
               especially {Vidua paradisea}, which is dark brownish
               above, pale buff beneath, with a reddish collar around
               the neck.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Widow bird \Wid"ow bird`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      See {Whidan bird}.

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   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shield \Shield\, n. [OE. sheld, scheld, AS. scield, scild,
      sceld, scyld; akin to OS. scild, OFries. skeld, D. & G.
      schild, OHG. scilt, Icel. skj[94]ldr, Sw. sk[94]ld, Dan.
      skiold, Goth. skildus; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Sheldrake}.]
      1. A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, --
            formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the
            body. See {Buckler}.
  
                     Now put your shields before your hearts and fight,
                     With hearts more proof than shields.   --Shak.
  
      2. Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter;
            protection. [bd]My council is my shield.[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
  
                     Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
                     great reward.                                    --Gen. xv. 1.
  
      4. (Bot.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a
            rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
  
      5. (Her.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the
            bearings in coats of arms. Cf. {Lozenge}. See Illust. of
            {Escutcheon}.
  
      6. (Mining & Tunneling) A framework used to protect workmen
            in making an adit under ground, and capable of being
            pushed along as excavation progresses.
  
      7. A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
            [bd]Bespotted as with shields of red and black.[b8]
            --Spenser.
  
      8. A coin, the old French crown, or [82]cu, having on one
            side the figure of a shield. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      {Shield fern} (Bot.), any fern of the genus {Aspidium}, in
            which the fructifications are covered with shield-shaped
            indusia; -- called also {wood fern}. See Illust. of
            {Indusium}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shield \Shield\, n. [OE. sheld, scheld, AS. scield, scild,
      sceld, scyld; akin to OS. scild, OFries. skeld, D. & G.
      schild, OHG. scilt, Icel. skj[94]ldr, Sw. sk[94]ld, Dan.
      skiold, Goth. skildus; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Sheldrake}.]
      1. A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, --
            formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the
            body. See {Buckler}.
  
                     Now put your shields before your hearts and fight,
                     With hearts more proof than shields.   --Shak.
  
      2. Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter;
            protection. [bd]My council is my shield.[b8] --Shak.
  
      3. Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
  
                     Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
                     great reward.                                    --Gen. xv. 1.
  
      4. (Bot.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a
            rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
  
      5. (Her.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the
            bearings in coats of arms. Cf. {Lozenge}. See Illust. of
            {Escutcheon}.
  
      6. (Mining & Tunneling) A framework used to protect workmen
            in making an adit under ground, and capable of being
            pushed along as excavation progresses.
  
      7. A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
            [bd]Bespotted as with shields of red and black.[b8]
            --Spenser.
  
      8. A coin, the old French crown, or [82]cu, having on one
            side the figure of a shield. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      {Shield fern} (Bot.), any fern of the genus {Aspidium}, in
            which the fructifications are covered with shield-shaped
            indusia; -- called also {wood fern}. See Illust. of
            {Indusium}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood partridge \Wood partridge\
      (a) Any of several small partridges of Java, Sumatra, Borneo,
            and neighboring regions belonging to the genera
            {Caloperdix}, {Rollulus}, and {Melanoperdix}.
      (b) The Canada grouse. [Local, U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Partridge \Par"tridge\, n. [OE. partriche, pertriche, OF.
      pertris, perdriz, F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. [?].]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of
            the genus {Perdix} and several related genera of the
            family {Perdicid[91]}, of the Old World. The partridge is
            noted as a game bird.
  
                     Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. --Chaucer.
  
      Note: The common European, or gray, partridge ({Perdix
               cinerea}) and the red-legged partridge ({Caccabis
               rubra}) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known
               species.
  
      2. Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging
            to {Colinus}, and allied genera. [U.S.]
  
      Note: Among them are the bobwhite ({Colinus Virginianus}) of
               the Eastern States; the plumed, or mountain, partridge
               ({Oreortyx pictus}) of California; the Massena
               partridge ({Cyrtonyx Montezum[91]}); and the California
               partridge ({Callipepla Californica}).
  
      3. The ruffed grouse ({Bonasa umbellus}). [New Eng.]
  
      {Bamboo partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a spurred partridge of the
            genus {Bambusicola}. Several species are found in China
            and the East Indies.
  
      {Night partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.]
  
      {Painted partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a francolin of South Africa
            ({Francolinus pictus}).
  
      {Partridge berry}. (Bot.)
            (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant
                  ({Mitchella repens}) of the order {Rubiace[91]},
                  having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant
                  flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs
                  with the ovaries united, and producing the berries
                  which remain over winter; also, the plant itself.
            (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen ({Gaultheria
                  procumbens}); also, the plant itself.
  
      {Partridge dove} (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Mountain witch}, under
            {Mountain}.
  
      {Partridge pea} (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb
            ({Cassia Cham[91]crista}), common in sandy fields in the
            Eastern United States.
  
      {Partridge shell} (Zo[94]l.), a large marine univalve shell
            ({Dolium perdix}), having colors variegated like those of
            the partridge.
  
      {Partridge wood}
            (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It
                  is obtained from tropical America, and one source of
                  it is said to be the leguminous tree {Andira inermis}.
                  Called also {pheasant wood}.
            (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and
                  striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for
                  walking sticks and umbrella handles.
  
      {Sea partridge} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic sand partridge
            ({Ammoperdix Bonhami}); -- so called from its note.
  
      {Snow partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a large spurred partridge
            ({Lerwa nivicola}) which inhabits the high mountains of
            Asia.
  
      {Spruce partridge}. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood partridge}, [or] {Hill partridge} (Zo[94]l.), any small
            Asiatic partridge of the genus {Arboricola}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tapper \Tap"per\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus minor}); --
      called also {tapperer}, {tabberer}, {little wood pie},
      {barred woodpecker}, {wood tapper}, {hickwall}, and {pump
      borer}. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG.
      witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir.
      & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.]
      1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove;
            -- frequently used in the plural.
  
                     Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky
                     wood.                                                --Shak.
  
      2. 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. [bd]To
            worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      3. (Bot.) 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.
  
      Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose
               and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
  
      4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
  
      {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid
            obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing
            large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically,
            acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}.
  
      {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa})
            of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust.
            of {Anemone}.
  
      {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which
            lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests.
  
      {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}.
           
  
      {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill.
  
      {Wood betony}. (Bot.)
            (a) Same as {Betony}.
            (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis
                  Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or
                  purplish flowers.
  
      {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring
                  beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles,
                  buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer},
                  under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}.
            (b) The larva of any one of various species of
                  lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing
                  moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}),
                  and of the goat moths.
            (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the
                  tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}.
            (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood,
                  as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
            (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the
                  {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura
                  terebrans}).
  
      {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces
            of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth.
            --Knight.
  
      {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell
            usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the
            principal constituent of woody fiber.
  
      {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods.
            [Poetic] --Coleridge.
  
      {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
  
      {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket
            ({Nemobius sylvestris}).
  
      {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon.
  
      {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an
            engraving.
  
      {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove.
  
      {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.
  
      {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The
                  male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with
                  green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its
                  nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal
                  duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}.
            (b) The hooded merganser.
            (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}).
  
      {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood.
  
      {Wood engraver}.
            (a) An engraver on wood.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles
                  whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and
                  excavate furrows in the wood often more or less
                  resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus
                  xylographus}.
  
      {Wood engraving}.
            (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography.
            (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from
                  such an engraving.
  
      {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}.
  
      {Wood fiber}.
            (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue.
            (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty
                  mass.
  
      {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of
            beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the
            bark, of trees.
  
      {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana
            sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except
            during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown,
            with a black stripe on each side of the head.
  
      {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}.
  
      {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity.
  
      {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}.
  
      {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The capercailzie.
            (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}.
  
      {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged
                  rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and
                  allied species.
            (b) The American woodcock.
  
      {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old
            World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied
            genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but
            have a curved beak, and a longer tail.
  
      {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large,
            long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus
            {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily
            covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus
            loculator}) is common in Florida.
  
      {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda
            arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes
            while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on
            trees.
  
      {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne
            Laureola}).
  
      {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera
            [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy
            larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other
            fruit trees.
  
      {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley.
  
      {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and
            sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the
            pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.
  
      {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod
                  Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and
                  related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill
                  bug}, under {Pill}.
            (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless,
                  pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]},
                  which live in the crevices of walls and among old
                  books and papers. Some of the species are called also
                  {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}.
  
      {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of
            the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in
            woods, on tree trunks and stones.
  
      {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law)
            (a) Formerly, the forest court.
            (b) The court of attachment.
  
      {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}.
  
      {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade.
  
      {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert.
  
      {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled
            goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked
            with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton.
            (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The
                  larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species,
                  as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves
                  of the grapevine.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely
                  colored South American humming birds belonging to the
                  genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or
                  green and blue.
  
      {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar.
  
                     We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh.
                                                                              x. 34.
  
      {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East
            Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having
            properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes
            substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See
            {Gurjun}.
  
      {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having
            some resemblance to wood.
  
      {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp},
            below.
  
      {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher
            ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but
            is smaller.
  
      {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker,
            especially the European great spotted woodpecker.
  
      {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons
                  belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the
                  family {Columbid[91]}.
            (b) The ringdove.
  
      {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse.
  
      {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the
            poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion
            with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into
            sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale.
           
  
      {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East
            Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied
            genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the
            male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red
            hairlike feathers.
  
      {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American
            wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern
            United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood
            rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species.
  
      {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea})
            growing in moist woods.
  
      {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.]
  
      {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula},
            differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus}
            chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule.
  
      {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of
            the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}.
  
      {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and
            usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood.
  
      {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser.
  
      {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2.
  
      {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World singing birds belonging to {Grallina},
            {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in
            India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes,
            but feed upon both insects and berries.
  
      {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The American woodcock.
            (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}).
  
      {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood.
  
      {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}.
  
      {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis
            Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of
            {Shamrock}.
  
      {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}.
           
  
      {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood,
            for impressing figures or colors on fabrics.
  
      {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            South American humming birds belonging to the genus
            {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue,
            purple, and other colors.
  
      {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle.
  
      {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old
            World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and
            allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common
            in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and
            habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they
            resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white
            beneath.
  
      {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker.
  
      {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}.
  
      {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the
                  sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}.
            (b) The missel thrush.
  
      {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary.
  
      {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}.
  
      {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest.
  
      {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See
            under {Sculptured}.
  
      {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony.
  
      {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above.
  
      {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of
                  the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}.
            (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); --
                  called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow
                  wren}.
  
      {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood
            borer.
  
      {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The wood warbler.
            (b) The willow warbler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tapper \Tap"per\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The lesser spotted woodpecker ({Dendrocopus minor}); --
      called also {tapperer}, {tabberer}, {little wood pie},
      {barred woodpecker}, {wood tapper}, {hickwall}, and {pump
      borer}. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woodbury-type \Wood"bur*y-type`\, n. [After the name of the
      inventor, W. Woodbury.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. A print from such a plate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Woody \Wood"y\, a.
      1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. [bd]The
            woody wilderness.[b8] --Bryant.
  
                     Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. --Milton.
  
      2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber;
            ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
  
      3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. [R.] [bd]Woody nymphs,
            fair Hamadryades.[b8] --Spenser.
  
      {Woody fiber}. (Bot.)
            (a) Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous
                  tubes tapering at each end.
            (b) A single wood cell. See under {Wood}. --Goodale.
  
      {Woody nightshade}. (Bot.). See {Bittersweet}, 3
            (a) .
  
      {Woody pear} (Bot.), the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit
            of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus
            {Xylomelum}; -- called also {wooden pear}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Waite Park, MN (city, FIPS 67612)
      Location: 45.55250 N, 94.22356 W
      Population (1990): 5020 (2201 housing units)
      Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56387

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Watford City, ND (city, FIPS 83860)
      Location: 47.80232 N, 103.27141 W
      Population (1990): 1784 (913 housing units)
      Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 58854

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   White Bear Lake, MN (city, FIPS 69970)
      Location: 45.06765 N, 93.01267 W
      Population (1990): 24704 (9465 housing units)
      Area: 21.2 sq km (land), 5.8 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55110, 55115

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   White Bird, ID (city, FIPS 87310)
      Location: 45.76292 N, 116.29894 W
      Population (1990): 108 (74 housing units)
      Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 83554

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Whiteford, MD
      Zip code(s): 21160

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbourne, NY
      Zip code(s): 12788
   Woodbourne, PA (CDP, FIPS 86112)
      Location: 40.20211 N, 74.88643 W
      Population (1990): 2953 (829 housing units)
      Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbourne-Hyde Park, OH (CDP, FIPS 86331)
      Location: 39.66072 N, 84.17363 W
      Population (1990): 7837 (3053 housing units)
      Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbranch, TX (village, FIPS 80044)
      Location: 30.18398 N, 95.18426 W
      Population (1990): 1312 (448 housing units)
      Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbridge, CA (CDP, FIPS 86230)
      Location: 38.16338 N, 121.31726 W
      Population (1990): 3456 (1238 housing units)
      Area: 11.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 95258
   Woodbridge, CT
      Zip code(s): 06525
   Woodbridge, IN
      Zip code(s): 47408
   Woodbridge, NJ (CDP, FIPS 81950)
      Location: 40.55472 N, 74.28580 W
      Population (1990): 17434 (7305 housing units)
      Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 07095
   Woodbridge, VA (CDP, FIPS 87312)
      Location: 38.63565 N, 77.26210 W
      Population (1990): 26401 (9513 housing units)
      Area: 27.1 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 22191

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodburn, IA (city, FIPS 86880)
      Location: 41.01049 N, 93.59649 W
      Population (1990): 240 (105 housing units)
      Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 50275
   Woodburn, IN (city, FIPS 85184)
      Location: 41.12602 N, 84.85276 W
      Population (1990): 1321 (478 housing units)
      Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 46797
   Woodburn, KY (city, FIPS 84414)
      Location: 36.84108 N, 86.52929 W
      Population (1990): 343 (114 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 42170
   Woodburn, OR (city, FIPS 83750)
      Location: 45.14842 N, 122.85579 W
      Population (1990): 13404 (4922 housing units)
      Area: 10.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 97071

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbury, CT
      Zip code(s): 06798
   Woodbury, GA (town, FIPS 83896)
      Location: 32.98332 N, 84.58277 W
      Population (1990): 1429 (519 housing units)
      Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 30293
   Woodbury, KY (city, FIPS 84432)
      Location: 37.18304 N, 86.63505 W
      Population (1990): 117 (49 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodbury, MN (city, FIPS 71428)
      Location: 44.90548 N, 92.92091 W
      Population (1990): 20075 (7541 housing units)
      Area: 90.7 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55125
   Woodbury, NJ (city, FIPS 82120)
      Location: 39.83725 N, 75.15344 W
      Population (1990): 10904 (4335 housing units)
      Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
   Woodbury, NY (CDP, FIPS 82744)
      Location: 40.81490 N, 73.47034 W
      Population (1990): 8008 (2569 housing units)
      Area: 13.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 11797
   Woodbury, PA (borough, FIPS 86128)
      Location: 40.22572 N, 78.36672 W
      Population (1990): 239 (95 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 16695
   Woodbury, TN (town, FIPS 81560)
      Location: 35.82484 N, 86.07052 W
      Population (1990): 2287 (1034 housing units)
      Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 37190
   Woodbury, VT
      Zip code(s): 05681

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbury Center, CT (CDP, FIPS 87980)
      Location: 41.54664 N, 73.20698 W
      Population (1990): 1212 (594 housing units)
      Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbury County, IA (county, FIPS 193)
      Location: 42.38810 N, 96.03664 W
      Population (1990): 98276 (39071 housing units)
      Area: 2260.2 sq km (land), 12.4 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodbury Heights, NJ (borough, FIPS 82180)
      Location: 39.81630 N, 75.15104 W
      Population (1990): 3392 (1130 housing units)
      Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 08097

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodford, SC (town, FIPS 78910)
      Location: 33.66777 N, 81.11171 W
      Population (1990): 200 (72 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Woodford, VA
      Zip code(s): 22580

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Woodford County, IL (county, FIPS 203)
      Location: 40.78598 N, 89.21226 W
      Population (1990): 32653 (11932 housing units)
      Area: 1367.6 sq km (land), 38.2 sq km (water)
   Woodford County, KY (county, FIPS 239)
      Location: 38.03919 N, 84.74082 W
      Population (1990): 19955 (7689 housing units)
      Area: 493.9 sq km (land), 3.4 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   WATFOR
  
      WATerloo FORtran.   U Waterloo, Canada.   Student-friendly
      variant of {Fortran}.   "WATFOR - The University of Waterloo
      Fortran IV Compiler", P.W. Shantz et al, CACM 10(1):41-44 (Jan
      1967).
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Wood-offering
      (Neh. 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah
      arrangements were made, probably on account of the comparative
      scarcity of wood, by which certain districts were required, as
      chosen by lot, to furnish wood to keep the altar fire
      perpetually burning (Lev. 6:13).
     
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