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or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks. [Written also whanghee.]

; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. Tickell.

olor, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider.

ng or platting with twigs; also, the network so formed. Made with a wattling of canes or sticks. Dampier.

in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something. Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. Dryden.

A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long.

Chips made by one who whittles; shavings cut from a stick with a knife.

s and among old books and papers. Some of the species are called also book lice, and deathticks, or deathwatches. -- Wood mite (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small mites of the family Oribatidæ. They are found chiefly in woods, on tree trunks and stones. -- Wood mote. (Eng. Law) (a) Formerly, the forest court. (b) The…

A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.

A rod; a stick; a staff. [Obs.] P. Plowman. If men smote it with a yerde. Chaucer.

A yardstick. Tennyson.

s deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.

infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.