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The wood louse. [Prov. Eng.]

The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed. Simmonds.

A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.

th a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

The common greasewood of the western United States (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).

A heavy, longnapped, tufted woolen cloth.

A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

ceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latt…

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

Act of cutting by strokes. Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

A short, thick, heavy piece of wood. Morton. Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens.

A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. [Slang, Eng.] There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. Feltham. To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]

616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634).