Word Meanings - WOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. Our hoste gan to swear as he were wood. Chaucer. (more info) D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. w song, Icel. , L. vates
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- FORESTICK
Front stick of a hearth fire. - FOREST
A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of - FORESTAY
A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship. - FORESTAGE
A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king. - GROVEL
adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate - FORESTER
A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester , which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. (more info) 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed - FORESTALL
To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention - GROVELER
One who grovels; an abject wretch. - JUNGLE
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult - COPSE
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith. - THICKET
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13. - GROVE
The original sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent. Note: The Hebrew word Asherah, rendered grove in the Authorized Version of - GROVELING
Lying prone; low; debased. "A groveling creature." Cowper. - FORESTRY
The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber. - FORESTAFF
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C. - FORESTALLER
One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke. - COPSEWOOD
Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay. - FORESTAL
Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights. - COAFFOREST
To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell. - AFFOREST
To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country. - UNDERGROVE
A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth. - REAFFORESTATION
The act or process of converting again into a forest. - REFORESTIZE
To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees. - REFOREST
To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize. - DEFOREST
To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports. - REFORESTIZATION
The act or process of reforestizing. - REAFFOREST
To convert again into the forest, as a region of country. - DISFORESTATION
The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.