Wood
Definition of Wood
Pronunciation: wŎd a. | 1. | Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. | v. i. | 1. | To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. | n. | 1. | | | 1. | A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural. | | 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. | | 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. | | 4. | Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.Wood baboon | (Zool.) the drill. |
Wood borer | a - | (Zool.) 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 culver | (Zool.) the wood pigeon. |
Wood echo | an echo from the wood. |
Wood grass | (Bot.) See under Grass. |
Wood louse | a - | (Zool.) 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 Psocidæ, 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 nettle | (Bot.) See under Nettle. |
| v. t. | 1. | To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive. | v. i. | 1. | To take or get a supply of wood. |
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