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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Wood

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Wood

See FOREST.


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Wood

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wood

WOOD, adjective Mad; furious.

WOOD, noun

1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest.

Light thickens, and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood

2. The substance of trees; the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark.

3. Trees cut or sawed for the fire. wood is yet the principal fuel in the United States.

4. An idol. Habakkuk 2:19.

WOOD, verb intransitive To supply or get supplies of wood


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wood-anemone

WOOD-ANEMONE, noun A plant. [See Anemone.]


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Wood-ashes

WOOD-ASHES, noun [wood and ashes.] The remains of burnt wood or plants. [This word is used in England to distinguish these ashes from the remains of coal. In the United States, where wood chiefly is burnt, the people usually say simply ashes. But as coal becomes more used, the English distinction will be necessary.]


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Wood-bind

WOOD-BIND, WOOD-BINE, noun A name given to the honeysuckle, a species of Lonicera.


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Wood-bine

WOOD-BIND, WOOD-BINE noun A name given to the honeysuckle, a species of Lonicera.


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Wood-bound

WOOD-BOUND, adjective [wood and bound.] Encumbered with tall woody hedgerows.


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Wood-chat

WOOD-CHAT, noun A species of butcher bird.


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Woodchuk

WOODCHUK, noun [wood and chuk, a hog.] [See Chuk.] The popular name in New England of a species of the Marmot tribe of animals, the Arctomys monax. It burrows and is dormant in winter.


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Wood-coal

WOOD-COAL, noun [wood and coal.] Charcoal.


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Wood-cock

WOOD-COCK, noun [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 wood cock of the United States is a smaller species.


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Wood-cockshell

WOOD-COCKSHELL, noun A name given by English naturalists to a peculiar kind of the purpura, called by the French becasse; of two species, the prickly and the smooth.


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Wood-drink

WOOD-DRINK, noun [wood and drink.] A decoction or infusion of medicinal woods.


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Wooded

WOODED, adjective Supplied or covered with wood; as land wooded and watered.


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Wooden

WOODEN, adjective [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.


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Wood-engraving

WOOD-ENGRAVING, noun Xylography; the art of engraving on wood, or of cutting figures of natural objects on wood.


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Wood-fretter

WOOD-FRETTER, noun [wood and fret.] An insect or worm that eats wood.


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Wood-hole

WOOD-HOLE, noun [wood and hole.] A place where wood is laid up.


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Wooding

WOODING, participle present tense Getting or supplying with wood.


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Wood-land

WOOD-LAND, noun [wood and land.]

1. Land covered with wood, or land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.

2. In England, a soil which, from its humidity and color, resembles the soil in woods.


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Wood-lark

WOOD-LARK, noun [wood and lark.] A bird, a species of lark.


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Wood-layer

WOOD-LAYER, noun [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.


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Woodless

WOODLESS, adjective Destitute of wood.


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Wood-lock

WOOD-LOCK, noun [wood and lock.] In shipbuilding, a piece of elm, close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising.


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Wood-louse

WOOD-LOUSE, noun [wood and louse.] An insect, the millepede.


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Woodman

WOODMAN, noun [wood and man.]

1. A forest officer, appointed to take care of the kings wood.

2. A sportsman; a hunter.


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Wood-meil

WOOD-MEIL, noun A coarse hairy stuff made of Iceland wool, used to line the ports of ships of war.


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Wood-mite

WOOD-MITE, [wood and mite.] A small insect found in old wood.


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Wood-monger

WOOD-MONGER, noun [wood and monger.] A wood seller.


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Wood-mote

WOOD-MOTE, noun [wood and mote.] In England, the ancient name of the forest court; now the court of attachment.


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Woodness

WOODNESS, noun Anger; madness; rage.


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Wood-nightshade

WOOD-NIGHTSHADE, noun A plant.


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Wood-note

WOOD-NOTE, noun [wood and note.] Wild music.

--Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancys child, warble his native wood-notes wild.


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Wood-nymph

WOOD-NYMPH, noun [wood and nymph.] A fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad.

The wood-nymphs deckd with daisies trim.


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Woodoffering

(Nehemiah 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah arrangements were made, probably on account of the comparative scarcity of wood, by which certain districts were required, as chosen by lot, to furnish wood to keep the altar fire perpetually burning (Leviticus 6:13).


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wood-offering

WOOD-OFFERING, noun Wood burnt on the altar. Nehemiah 10:1.


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Woodpecker

WOODPECKER, noun [wood and peck.] A bird of the genus Picus, that pecks holes in trees, or that picks insects form the bark.


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Wood-pigeon

WOOD-PIGEON, noun [wood and pigeon.] The ring-dove, (Columba palumbus.)


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Wood-puceron

WOOD-PUCERON, noun [wood and puceron.] A small insect of the puceron kind, 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.


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Woodreve

WOODREVE, noun [wood and reve.] In England, the steward or overseer of a wood.


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Wood-roof

WOOD-ROOF, WOOD-RUFF, noun [wood and roof or ruff.] A plant of the genus Asperula.


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Wood-sage

WOOD-SAGE, noun [wood and sage.] A plant of the genus Teucrium.


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Wood-sare

WOOD-SARE, noun A kind of froth seen on herbs.


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Wood-seere

WOOD-SEERE, noun The time when there is no sap in a tree.


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Wood-shock

WOOD-SHOCK, noun The fisher or wejack, a quadruped of the weasel kind in North America.


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Wood-soot

WOOD-SOOT, noun [wood and soot.] Soot from burnt wood, which has been found useful as a manure.


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Wood-sorrel

WOOD-SORREL, noun [wood and sorrel.] A plant of the genus Oxalis.


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Wood-spite

WOOD-SPITE, noun [wood and spite.] A name given in some parts of England to the green woodpecker.


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Wood-stone

WOOD-STONE, noun [wood and stone.] A blackish gray silicious stone, a subspecies of horn-stone.


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Wood-ward

WOOD-WARD, noun [wood and ward.] An officer of the forest, whose duty is to guard the woods.


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Wood-wash

WOOD-WASH, noun A name sometimes applied to dyers broom.


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Woodwaxen

WOODWAXEN, noun A plant of the genus Genista; dyers broom.


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Wood-worm

WOOD-WORM, noun [wood and worm.] A worm that is bread in wood.


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Woody

WOODY, adjective [from wood.]

1. Abounding with wood; as woody land; a woody region.

--Secret shades of woody Idas inmost grove.

2. Consisting of wood; ligneous; as the woody parts of plants.

3. Pertaining to woods; sylvan; as woody nymphs.