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ly before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. Milton.

areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]

A small stick of wood, as for firewood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak.

A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]

The wood or timber of the birch.

Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.

Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiæfolia); Roman worm wood. Gray.

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning.…

A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi Tomlinson.

d confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.