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Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Watts.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

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.

To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

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.

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

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…