Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WOOD-CHUK, n. [wood and Persian chuk, a hog. See Chuk.]

In New England, the popular name of a rodent mammal, a species of the Marmot tribe of animals, the Arctomys monax. The ground hog. It burrows and is dormant in winter.

WOOD'COAL, n. [wood and coal.]

Charcoal.

WOOD'-COCK, n. [wood and cock.]

A fowl of the genus Scolopax, inhabiting the northern parts of the European continent in summer, but frequenting England in winter. The woodcock of the United States is a smaller species.

WOOD'-COCK-SHELL, n. [WOOD'-COCK SHELL.]

A name given by English naturalists to a peculiar kind of the purports, called by the French becasse; of two species, the prickly and the smooth, Murex haustellum.

WOOD'-CUT, n.

An engraving on wood.

WOOD'-CUT-TER, n.

A person who cuts wood.

WOOD'-CUT-TING, ppr.

Cutting wood.

WOOD'-DRINK, n. [wood and drink.]

A decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.

WOOD-ECHO, n.

An echo from the wood.

WOOD'ED, a.

Supplied or covered with wood; as, land wooded and watered. – Arbuthnot.

WOOD'EN, a. [from wood.]

1. Made of wood; consisting of wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden horse.
2. Clumsy; awkward. When a bold man is put out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. – Collier.

WOOD-EN-GRAV-ING, n.

Xylography; the art of engraving on wood, or of cutting figures of natural objects on wood. – Cyc.

WOOD-FRET-TER, n. [wood and fret.]

An insect or worm that eats wood. – Ainsworth.

WOOD-HOLE, n. [wood and hole.]

A place where wood is laid up. – Philips.

WOOD'-HOUSE, n. [wood and house.]

A house or shed in which wood is deposited and sheltered from the weather. – United States.

WOOD'ING, ppr.

Getting or supplying with wood. – Washington.

WOOD'-LAND, n. [wood and land.]

1. Land covered with wood, or land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber. – America.
2. In England, a soil which, from its humidity and color, resembles the soil in wood. – Cyc.

WOOD'LARK, n. [wood and lark.]

A bird, a species of lark.

WOOD'-LAY-ER, n. [wood and layer.]

A young oak or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the white thorn or other plants used in hedges. – Cyc.

WOOD'LESS, a.

Destitute of wood. – Mitford.

WOOD'LESS-NESS, n.

State of being destitute of wood.

WOOD-LOCK, n. [wood and lock.]

In ship-building, a piece of elm, close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. – Cyc.

WOOD'-LOUSE, n. [wood and louse.]

An insect, the milleped. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

WOOD'MAN, n. [wood and man.]

1. A forest officer, appointed to take care of the king's wood. – England.
2. A sportsman; hunter. – Milton. Pope.

WOOD'-MEIL, n.

A coarse hairy stuff made of Iceland wool, used to line the ports of ships of war. – Cyc.