Definition of wood

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Wood (n.) 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..

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Copsewood :: Copsewood (n.) Brushwood; coppice.
Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it..
Kawaka :: Kawaka (n.) a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood..
Stick :: Stick (v. t.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used..
Edder :: Edder (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together..
Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke..
Leatherwood :: Leatherwood (n.) A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy..
Emboss :: Emboss (v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
Greenwood :: Greenwood (n.) A forest as it appears is spring and summer.
Coal :: Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal..
Opening :: Opening (n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings..
Dryad :: Dryad (n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
Ringdove :: Ringdove (n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat..
Grating :: Grating (n.) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats..
Grove :: Grove (v.) A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent..
Bistre :: Bistre (n.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.
Crippler :: Crippler (n.) A wooden tool used in graining leather.
Olivewood :: Olivewood (n.) The wood of the olive.
Sandhiller :: Sandhiller (n.) A nickname given to any poor white living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled..
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