Wood: alternatives and connections

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U.…

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A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus e…

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A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

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A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

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The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.

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A tree of the genus Fagus.

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An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar o…

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A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwar…

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A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

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A thicket; a small wood.

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The wood of the box (Buxus).

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tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry

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Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

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To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

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The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

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A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;

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The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

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wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets

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A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

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Wood drifted or floated by water.

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One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

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The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

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Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

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A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

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A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common Am…

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A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the Californi…

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A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The spec…

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A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened b…

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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.

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Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum.

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A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

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The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The Amer…

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The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is te…

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The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, an…

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An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hicko…

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A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.

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A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa,…

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A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin.

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A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

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A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia…

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A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).

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A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.

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Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / P…

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A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.

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The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called ha…

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A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

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A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in th…

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A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla.

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Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smoot…

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A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivate…

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A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest o…

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Woe; torment; pain.

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A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia fo…

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Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.

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A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.

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Red.

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A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalber…

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The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding.

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The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the…

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Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.

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The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; --…

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The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The na…

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Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.

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See Spoom.

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Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides…

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Alt. of Sumach

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A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

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A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; als…

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The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying.

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A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and v…

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The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temp…

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The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.

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A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.

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The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctori…

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See Yaw.

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A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis).

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The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which…

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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The goddess of flowers and spring.

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The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.

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Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.

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Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

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A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

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The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on whic…

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A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…

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A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

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Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

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That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.

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Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.

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An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never be…

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