Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WOOD'-MITE, n. [wood and mite.]

A small insect found in old wood.

WOOD'-MON-GER, n. [wood and monger.]

A wood seller.

WOOD'-MOTE, n. [wood and mote.]

In England, the ancient name of the forest court; now the court of attachment. – Cyc.

WOOD'NESS, n.

Anger; madness; rage. [Obs.] – Fisher.

WOOD'-NIGHT-SHADE, n.

A plant, Solanuni Dulcamara.

WOOD'-NOTE, n. [wood and note.]

Wild music. Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child / Warble his native wood-notes wild. – Milton.

WOOD'-NYMPH, n. [wood and nymph.]

A fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad. The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies trim. – Milton.

WOOD-OF'FER-ING, n.

Wood burnt on the altar. – Neh. x.

WOOD'PECK-ER, n. [wood and peck.]

A bird of the genus Pious, that pecks holes in trees, or that picks insect from the bark.

WOOD'-PIG-EON, n. [wood and pigeon.]

The ring-dove, [Columba palumbus.] – Ed. Encyc.

WOOD-PU'CE-RON, n. [wood and puceron.]

A small in sect of a grayish color, having two hollow horns on the hinder part of its body. It resembles the puceron of the alder, but it penetrates into the wood. – Cyc.

WOOD'REVE, n. [wood and reve.]

In England, the steward or overseer of a wood.

WOOD'-ROOF, n. [wood and roof or ruff.]

A plant.

WOOD'-RUFF, n.

the genus Asperula. – Cyc.

WOOD'-SAGE, n. [wood and sage.]

A plant of the genus Teucrium. – Lee.

WOOD'-SAKE, n.

A kind of froth seen on herbs. – Bacon.

WOOD'-SERE, n.

The time when there is no sap in a tree. – Tusser.

WOOD-SHOCK, n.

The wejack, a quadruped of the weasel kind in North America. It is the Mustela Canadensis of Linnæus, a digitigrade carnivorous mammal, sometime called Pekan, Otchock, Fisher Weasel, etc. It is found from Pennsylvania to the Great-Slave-Lake, and across the continent to the shores of the Pacific.

WOOD'-SOOT, n. [wood and soot.]

Soot from burnt wood which has been found useful as a manure. – Cyc.

WOOD'-SOR-REL, n. [wood and sorrel.]

A plant of the genus Oxalis. – Lee.

WOOD'-SPITE, n. [wood and spite.]

A name given in some parts of England to the green woodpecker.

WOOD'-STONE, n. [wood and stone.]

A blackish grey silicious stone, a subspecies of hornstone. – Ure.

WOOD'WARD, n. [wood and ward.]

An officer of the forest, whose duty is to guard the woods. – Cyc. England.

WOOD'-WASH, n.

A name sometimes applied to dyer broom. – Cyc.

WOOD'-WAX-EN, n.

A plant of the genus Genista; dyer's broom. – Fam. of Plants. Lee.