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and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.] The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

ed, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

tion; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. Heywood.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

cal ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

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. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex ve…

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

pice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).

The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.

A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.