wood-star 
wood-star (wiid'star), H. 1. A humming-bird 
of the geuus Calothorax, as C. calliope. — 2. Tlio 
Bahamau sheartail, a humming-bird, Dorkha 
cretynse, common in New Providence and An- 
dros islands. See sheartdil. 
wood-still (wud'stil), u. A turpentine-still. 
wood-stone (wud'ston), ». Petrified wood; es- 
pecially, silicified wood, such as that from An- 
tigua, the desert of Cairo, etc. 
wood-stork (wud'stork), «. A stork of the sub- 
family Tdiitaliiise, more commonly and less cor- 
rectly called wood-ibis. See cut under TmitalKS. 
wood-stove (wud'stov), M. A stovo specially 
adapted for burning wood, as distinguished 
from a coal-stove, gas-stove, etc. 
wood-strawberry (wud'stra"ber-i), n. See 
stratrberri/. 
WOOdsucker (wiid'suk'er), «. The green wood- 
pecker, CTCciniLS riridis. Compare sap.tncker. 
See cut \indev popiiijay. [New Forest, Eng.] 
WOOd-SWallow (wud'swol"6), n. Tlie Anglo- 
Australian name of any bird of the family 
Artumidss; a swallow-shrike (which see, with 
cut). 
wood-swift (wud'swift), n. The moth Epialu.'i 
.^yhiiiii.',: See strift^, 7. 
woodsy (wiid'zi), o. [< woodti, pi. of wood'^, + 
-//I.] Belonging to or associated with woods; 
peculiar to or characteristic of woods: as, a 
iriiiidsy stream; a woodsy flavor. [U. S.] 
Harry, Tina, Esther, and I ran up and down and in and 
about the piles of wood that evening with a joyous satis- 
faction. How fresli and spicy and it'oorfsj/ it smelt ! lean 
smell now the fragrance of the hickory, whose clear, oily 
hark in burning cast forth perfume quite e(iual to cinna- 
mon. //. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 485. 
Woodsy and wild and lonesome, 
The swift stream wound away. 
Whittier, Cobbler Keezer's Vision. 
woodtapper (wiul'tap'er), w. A woodpecker. 
Also itoodtupper. [Prov. Eng.] 
wood-tar (wud'tar), n. Tar obtained from 
wood. See toj-l. 
wood-thrush (wud'thrush), H. 1. The mistle- 
thrush. [Local, Scotland.] — 2. In the United 
States, Titrdns (Hylociehhi) mustcUnus, a beau- 
tiful thrush of a russet hue above, passing into 
olivaceous on the rump and tail, the under 
parts pure white or faintly tinged with buff on 
the breast, with a profusion of arrow-headed 
blackish spots, it is 7J to 8 inches long, and about 13 
in extent. It abounds in copses and woods of eastern 
parts of the United States, is an exquisite songster, and 
nests in bushes or low trees, laying four or five robhi- 
blue eggs without spots, l,'o inches long by ,"5 inch broad. 
It is migratoiy, breeds throughout its range, and is rather 
southerly, not going north of New England. It is the 
most strongly marked species of its subgenus. The name 
is sometimes extended to the several species of the same 
subgenus (HylocichlaX as the hermit-thrush, the olive- 
back, the veery, and others. Also locally called wood- 
robin. 
To her grave sylvan nooks 
Thy steps allure us, which the wood-lhru»h hears 
As maids their lovers', and no treason feais. 
Lowell, To Whittier. 
wood-tick (wud'tik), n. 1. Any tick of the 
family Ixodidee. See Ixodidx, t'icl;'^, and cut 
under Acnrida. — 2. A small insect which ticks 
in the woodwork of liouses ; the death-wateli. 
See cut under dentli-icatch. 
wood-tin (wild 'tin). V. A nodular variety of 
cassiterite, or tin-stone, of a brownish color 
and fibrous structure, and somewhat resem- 
bling dry wood in appearance. 
woodtopper (wud'top"er), n. Same as irood- 
tfipjwr. 
wood-tortoise (wud't6r"tis), n. See tortoise. 
wood-vetch (wM'vech), x. See vetch. 
wood-vine (wud'vin), n. The bryony. 
wood-vinegar (wud'vin"e-gar), n. See rincgar. 
wood-violet (wud'vi"6-let)',' «. 1. Same as 
hedge-violet. ~2. The bird's-foot violet. 
wood-wagtail (wud'wag'tal), n. See wagtail. 
WOOdwale (wiid'wal), n. [Also iroodicall, and 
formerly woodwele, tcoodiccele; also witwall,q.v.; 
< ME. wudcwnle, irodewale (= MD. irediiwael, 
veedewael = MLG. wedewale = MHG. uitewnl, 
G. witleiral); < itoodl + -trale (uncertain).] 
The woodhack ; a woodpecker, as the yaffle. 
Wodewale, bryd, idem quod reynefowlc (or wodehake) 
supra et lucar, I'nnnpt. Parr., p. f.:il. 
In many places were nyghtingalea, 
Alpes, fynches, and tcodewaleg. 
Horn, of the lioge, 1, 608. 
The icoflewale beryde als a belle, 
That all the wode alxjwte me ronge. 
Th<imai! 0/ Enmeldrmrte (fhiWf, I'.allads, I, as). 
The wondweele sang, and woUl not cease. 
Sitting upon the spraye, 
Robm Hood and Guy 0/ Gisbor:ie (Child's liallads, V. 160), 
6970 
wood-walker (wiid'w4'''ker). n. A book-name 
of any of the gibbons, as members of the genus 
Hylolmtes. 
woodwall (wiid'wal), »(. Same as woodwale. 
wood-warbler (wud'war'''bler), 11. A bird which 
warbles in the woods. Specifically — (a) In Great 
liritain, the yellow willow-warbler, or wood-wren, Sylvin 
or Phylloscopu^ gitnlatrix (the Sylvia sylvicola of some 
authors), a small migratory species of the subfamily Syl- 
viinsp, or true warblers, common to much of Europe and 
northern Africa. See cut under wood-wren. (&) In the 
I ■ uited States, a bird of the beautiful and extensive family 
Mniotiltidx or Detidroecidce, the American warblers, as dis- 
tinguished from the Old \\ ot\A Sylviidte; especially, a bird 
of the genus Dendrwca, of which more than 20 species in- 
habit the United States. The beauty and variety of this 
genus are displayed to best advantage in the woodland 
of the eastern United States, where the numerous species 
are conspicuous ornaments of the forest scene. In most 
parts of the United States the wood-warblers are migra- 
tory birds, coming with great regularity in the spring, 
each in its own time, abounding for a season, and then 
passing on to reappear in even greater profusion during 
the autumn. See warbler, where all the species that have 
English names are dellned, 
woodward (wud' ward), m. [< WE., wodeward ; 
< wood'^ + loard^, n. Hence the surname fVood- 
tcard.'i A forester; a landreeve. 
She [a forest] hath also her peculiar Olficers, as For- 
esters, Verderers, Regarderers, Agisters, &c. Whereas a 
Chase or I'ark hath only Keepers and Woodwards. 
Howell, Letters, iv, 16. 
'The wood-ward, who watched the forest, could claim 
every tree that the wind blew down, 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 317. 
Woodwardia (wud-wiir'di-ii), n. [NL. (Smith, 
1(90), named after Thomas J. Woodward, an 
English botanist.] A 
small genus of polypodi- 
aceons ferns, the chain- 
ferns, mostly natives of 
north temperate regions. 
They are large feras with pin- 
natilld or pinnate fronds, and 
linear or oblong sori whicll are 
sunk in cavities of the frond, 
arranged in a chain-like row 
parallel to the midribs of the 
pinnas, Theindnsium is fixed 
by its outer margin to the 
fruiting veinlet, and covers 
the cavity like alid. Of the 6 
species 3 are found in North 
America, See also cut under 
sorrts. 
wood'wardite (wud'- 
wiird-it), n. [Named af- 
ter Dr, S, P. IVoodward 
(1S21-65).] A hydrous 
suljiliate of copper, oc- 
curring in concretionary 
forms of a blue color, 
found in Cornwall, Eng- 
land. 
woodwardship (wud'- 
ward-.ship), «, [< wood- 
ward + -ship.'i The of- 
fice of woodward. 
Chain-fern (.lyoodtvardia 
yt'rjri'tjra). 
z, pinnule, showing the fruit- 
dots (sorO, 
Also Mr, Hungerford has engrossed the above spoils and 
60 more trees at 4/- by connivance of Mr, Inkpen, who sold 
him the woodwardship of that manor for 33,4, 
Darretl Papers (H. Hall's Society in Elizabethan Age, 
[App,, ii,). 
wood-wasp (wiid'wosp), «. 1. A European so- 
<-ial wasp, or paper-wasp, Vespa sylvestris, which 
hangs its nest in a tree. — 2. A wasp which bur- 
rows in wood, as certain species of Crahroiii- 
d^e. The female, by means of her strong broad mandi- 
bles, excavates cells in the sand or in rotten timber, in 
which she deposits her eggs, with larva; or insects as food 
for her progeny when hatched. These insects are extreme- 
ly active in their haldts, and fond of the nectar of flowers. 
The larger species are marked with yellow rings, while 
those of tlie smaller are generally black. See cut under 
Crahro. 
3. A horntail ; any member of the Vroceridte 
(or Sirieidfe), the'larvas of all of which are 
wood-borers ; a tailed wasp, as Vrncertis or Sirex 
gigas. 
wood-wax (wud'waks). «. [Also wood-wnxeii, 
iu)i\ Koadiraxen (simulating woad); < ME. wode- 
ircxe, < AS. wuduweaxe, < wiidii, wood, -t- weax, 
wax (?).] Same as woadwaxen. 
wood-waxen ("■ud'wak"sn), «. Same as wood- 
wax. 
WOOdweelet, WOOdwelet, "• Obsolete forms of 
woodtrole. 
wood-'widgeon (wud'wlj''''on), it. See wideieon. 
2 (e). 
wood-wool (wiid'wul), n. Fine shavings made 
from jiiiie wood, specially prepared and used as 
a sui'gical dressing. 
woodwork (wud'werk), H. Objects, or parts 
of oli.jects, made of wood : that which is pro- 
duced by the carpenters' or joiners' art: gener- 
ally applied to details rather than to complete 
woody 
structures: as, the woodwork ot a house (that 
is, the inner fittings, etc.). 
A young man has some reason to be displeased when he 
finds the girl of his heart hand in hand » ith another young 
gentleman in an occult and shady recess of the wood-work 
of Brighton Pier. Ttmckeray, Philip, xiv. 
The rich painting of the wood-work was beginning to 
fade. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 128. 
woodworker ( wud'wer''ker), H. 1 . A worker in 
wood, as a carpenter, joiner, or cabinet-maker. 
— 2. A power-machine for jointing, molding, 
squaring, and facing wood. It is made adjusta- 
ble, and has various attachments for work of dif- 
ferent kinds.— Universal woodworker, a combina- 
tion machine for working in wood, so made that the two 
sides can work independently or in concert, as may be 
desired. Such machines are adapted for a great variety 
of work, as chamfering, graining, tenoning, crosscutting, 
and mitering. E. H. Kniyht. 
wood-worm (wud'werm), «. A worm, grub, or 
larva that is bred in wood. 
woodwoset, n. [Also, corruptly, woodhouse; < 
ME. woodwosc, wodewose, wodewese, woodwyse, 
wowyse; < AS. wudewdsa, a man of the ■woods, 
a faun or satyr, < wudu, wood, -f- 'wdsa, prob. 
' a being,' < wesan, dial, wosan. be : see was.'] A 
wild man of the woods ; a satyr or faun. Repre- 
sentations of woodwoses often appear in her- 
aldry as supporters. 
Wodwos, that woned in the knarre3 [rocks]. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Kniyht (E. E. T, S,), L 721. 
In he scliokkes his schelde, schountes he no lengare; 
Bot alles unwyse wodewyse he wente at the gayneste. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T, S), 1, 3818. 
Some like brute beasts grazed upon the ground, some 
went naked, some roamed like woodwoses. 
Sir T. Wilson (Arber's Eng, Gamer, I. 464). 
WOOd-'Wren (wud'ren), «. 1. Either one of two 
small woodland birds of Europe, belonging to 
the subfamily Sylviime. (a) The willow-warbler or 
willow-wren, Phytloscopus trochUus. (b) The true wood- 
warbler, or yellow willow-wren, Phytloscopus sibilatrix: 
Yellow Wood-wren iPhylloscapits sibilatrix^. 
the preferable tise of the name. The two species, though 
quite distinct, are much alike and often confounded. 
Neither is a wren in a proper sense. 
2t. A supposed species of true wren, described 
by Audubon in 1834 as Troglodytes americanus, 
but not different from the common house-wren 
of the United States. 
WOOd-'Wroth (wod'roth), 0. Angry to the ex- 
tent of madness. [Scotch.] 
When he saw her dear heart's blood, 
A' wood-wroth waxed he. 
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (AUingham's Ballad-BookX 
wood'wyset, ». See woodwose. 
woody (wud'i), a. [Early mod. E. also woodie, 
wodtly: < ME. wody. wod, woody; < wood^ + -yl.] 
1. Abounding with wood; wooded: as, woody 
land; a iroody region. 
It is all woddy, but by the Sea side Southward there are 
sands like downes. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 277. 
Oft in glimmering bowers and glades 
He met her, and in secret shades 
Of u'oody Ida's inmost grove, 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1, 29, 
A slanting ray lingered on the wootf t/ crests of the preci- 
pices that overhmig some parts of the river, giving greater 
depth to the dark-gray and purple of their rocky sides, 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 438. 
2. Pertaining or belonging to the woods ; dwell- 
ing or situated in the woods ; peculiar to a wood 
or forest ; sylvan ; woodland ; woodsy. 
All the Satyres scorne their woodtt kind, 
Spenser,r.Q..l. Ti. 18. 
The Brachmanes, which he in his Indian tiauels had 
found in a woodie solitarinesse. 
Pitrehas, Pilgrimage, p, 367, 
3. Consisting of or containing wood ; ligneous: 
as, the woody parts of plants. 
Herbs are those plants whose stalks are soft, and have 
nothing woody in them, as grass, sowthistle, and hemlock. 
Locke, Elem. of Nat. Philos,, ii, 
4. Peculiar to or characteristic of wood: as, a 
woody scent or flavor.— Glandular woody fiber. 
