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A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.

Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron.

An herb of the Mint family (Sideritis), supposed to heal sword cuts; also, a species of Galeopsis.

Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.

See Jackwood.

See St. John's-wort.

The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.

Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.

. See Kyaboca wood.

The navelwort.

A female relative. Shak.

A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum.)

See Japan Current, above.

Amboyna wood.

arved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).…

Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.

Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields a resinous substance of a bitter taste. The genus is mostly European.

Same as Lathing.

Same as Lattice, n., 1.