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which the name of Albrede, one of these benefactors, may 
easily be discerned. On the south side of the church for¬ 
merly stood a priory of Augustines, founded by sir Hugh 
Rous, or Rufus; but at what time we are not informed. 
Here are also an Independent, Baptist, Methodist, and Qua¬ 
kers’ meeting-houses; a grammar-school, two alms-houses, 
three public fire-offices, and two banks. The river being 
navigable for vessels which trade to London, Hull, New¬ 
castle, and the Continent, it has a considerable traffic, and a 
dock for building vessels, with convenient wharfs and quays. 
Its name is supposed to have been originally derived from a 
wooden bridge, built over the road in a hollow way, com¬ 
municating with two parks; and there is still a house at the 
foot of the hill called Drybridge, supposed to have been 
erected on the site thereof. On the site of its ancient priory 
is erected a handsome mansion, the seat of admiral Carthew. 
Of late years a statute-sessions has been held here on the 
day after Old Michaelmas day, for hiring servants, &c. 
The market on Wednesday is well supplied, and its fairs are 
the 5th April and 2 d October; 8 | miles east-north-east of 
Ipswich, and 77| north-east-by-east of London. Popula¬ 
tion 4332. 
WOODBRIDGE, a township of the United States, in New 
Haven county, Connecticut; 7 miles north-west of New 
Haven. Population 2030. 
WOODBRIDGE, a post township and village of the 
United States, in Middlesex county, New Jersey, west of 
Arthur Kull Sound; Smiles north-north-west of Amboy. 
Population 4247. The village contains an Episcopal and 
Presbyterian church. 
WOODBURY, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 3 
miles east-south-east of Topsham. Population 1361.—2. A 
hamlet in Dorsetshire; 6 miles from Wareham. 
WOODBURY, a township of the United States, in Cale¬ 
donia county, Vermont; 19 miles north-east of Montpelier. 
Population 254.—2. A post township of Litchfield county, 
Connecticut; 16 miles south of Litchfield. Population 1963. 
WOODBURY, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Gloucester county, New Jersey; 9 miles south of 
Philadelphia. It contains a court-house, a jail, an academy, 
and a Quaker meeting-house, and upwards of 100 houses.— 
2. A township of Bedford county, Pennsylvania. Popula¬ 
tion 1658. 
WOODCHESTER, a village and parish of England, in 
the county of Gloucester. Here is a well endowed free 
grammar school; and it has manufactures of silk, and of 
fine broad cloth; 2§- miles south-west of Stroud. Popula¬ 
tion 845. 
WOODCHURCH, a township of England, in Cheshire; 
6 | miles north-by-west of Great Neston.—2. A parish in 
Kent; 5 miles east of Tenterden. Population 870. 
WOO'DCOCK, f, [pobucoc, Saxon ; scolopax, Latin.] 
A bird of passage with a long bill; his food is not known. 
It is a word ludicrously used for a dunce.—He hath bid mg to 
a calve’s head and a capon; shall I not find a woodcock too ? 
Shakspeare. 
WOODCOT, a township of England, in the parish of 
Wrenbury, Cheshire.—2. A hamlet in Dorsetshire; 5 miles 
from Sandwich.—3. A hamlet in Salop; 2J miles from 
Newport.—4. A parish in Southamptonshire; 5 miles north- 
north-west of Whitchurch. 
WOODCOTE, a township of England, in Warwick¬ 
shire ; 3J miles from Warwick. 
WOODCROFT, a hamlet of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire; 5 5 miles north-west of Peterborough. 
WOOD-DALLING, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 
3 miles north-by-west of Reepham. Population 480. 
WOOD-DITTON, a parish of England, in Cambridge¬ 
shire ; 2 miles from Newmarket. Population 758. 
WOO'DDRINK, s. Decoction or infusion of medicinal 
woods, as sassafras.—The drinking elder-wine or tvooddrinks 
are very useful. Floycr. 
WOOD-EATON, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
4 miles north-north-east of Oxford.—2. A hamlet in the 
parish of Church Eaton, Staffordshire, near Penkridge. 
WOO'DED, adj. Supplied with wood. 
Wooded so, 
It makes a spring of all kindes that grow. Chapman. 
WOO'DEN, adj. Ligneous; made of wood; timber. 
Like a strutting player, whose conceit 
Lies in his hamstring, he doth think it rich 
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 
’Twixt his stretch’d footing and the scaffoldage. Shakspeare. 
Clumsy; awkward. 
I’ll win this lady Margaret: for whom ? 
Why, for my king: tush, that’s a wooden thing. 
Shakspeare. 
WOODEN, a township of England, in Northumberland, 
near Alnwick. 
WOODEN’S ISLAND, a rocky islet in the North Pacific 
ocean, on the south coast of King George the Third’s Archi¬ 
pelago: so called by Captain Vancouver, from Isaac Wooden, 
one of his crew, who fell overboard near it and was drowned, 
a little to the east of Cape Ommaney. 
WOOD-END, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Dymock, Gloucestershire.—2. A hamlet in Northampton¬ 
shire ; 5 miles west-by-north of Towcester. 
WOODENDERBY, a parish of England, in Lincoln¬ 
shire; 3 miles from Ilorncastle. 
WOODFORD, a parish of England, in Essex; 8J miles 
north-east of St. Paul’s, London. Population 2056. 
WOODFORD, a township of England, in Cheshire; 5 
miles south-by-west of Stockport.—2. A parish in Dorset¬ 
shire; 4 miles from Dorchester.—3. A parish in Northamp¬ 
tonshire; 7| miles south-south-west of Daventry. Popula¬ 
tion 653.—4. Another parish in Northamptonshire; 2£ 
miles south-west of Thrapston. Population 465.—5. A 
parish in Wiltshire; 4 miles north-north-w'est of Salisbury. 
Population 322. 
WOODFORD, a township of the United States, in Ben¬ 
nington county, Vermont; 8 miles east of Bennington. 
Population 254. 
WOODFORD, a county of the United States, in the 
central part of Kentucky, bounded on the north by Scott 
county, on the east by Fayette, on the south-east by Jessa¬ 
mine, on the south-west by Mercer, and on the north-west 
by Franklin. It is rich and populous. Population 9659. 
Slaves 3414. Chief town, Versailles. 
WOODFORD-BRIDGE, a hamlet of England, in Essex; 
10 miles north-east of St. Paul’s, London. 
WOO'DFRETTER, s. [feres, Lat.] An insect; a 
woodworm. Ainsworth. 
WOO'DGOD, s. A pretended sylvan deity.—The wyld 
woodgods arrived in the place. Spenser. 
WOODGREEN, a village of England, in Southampton¬ 
shire, near Fordinbridge, 
WOODHALL, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 4 
miles from Horncastle.—2. A hamlet in Yorkshire; 5 miles 
north-west of Howden.—3. A township of Yorkshire; 9^ 
miles south-by-east of Rotherham. 
WOODHAM, a hamlet of England, in Buckinghamshire; 
8 miles west-north-west of Aylesbury.—2. A township in 
Durham, near Rushy Ford. 
WOODHAM, Ferris, a parish of England, in Essex ; 
4| miles south-south-east of Danbury. Population 747. 
WOODHAM, Mortimer, a parish in the above county; 
2 miles south-west of Maldon. 
WOODHAM, Walter, also a parish in Essex; 3 miles 
west of Maldon. 
WOODHAVEN, a small village of Scotland, in Fifeshire, 
on the Tay, opposite to Dundee, between which there is a 
regular ferry ; 9 miles north of Cupar. 
WOODHAY, East, a parish of England, in Southamp¬ 
tonshire; 10| miles north-north-west of Whitchurch. Po¬ 
pulation 969. 
WOODHAY, West, a parish of England, in Berkshire; 
6 miles south-west of Newbury. 
WOODIIILL GBEEN, a hamlet of England, in Somer¬ 
setshire. 
WOO'DHOLE, 
