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A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.

incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.

Wood drifted or floated by water.

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.

Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition. Easel picture, Easel piece, a painting of moderate size such as is made while resting on an easel, as distinguished from a painting on a wall or ceiling.

To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.

A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

percussion of sound; repetition of a sound. The babbling echo mocks the hounds. Shak. The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Pope.

Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.

A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back. Gwilt.