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A wood seller. [Obs.]

Anger; madness; insanity; rage. [Obs.] Spenser. Woodness laughing in his rage. Chaucer.

A woodpecker. [Obs.]

Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidæ.

A compact woodlike variety of asbestus.

A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.

A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.

A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance.

Of or pertaining to the woods or forest. [Colloq. U. S.] It [sugar making] is woodsy, and savors of trees. J. Burroughs.

The yaffle. [Written also woodwale, and woodwele.]

An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.

A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.

Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.

See Wood worm, under Wood.

Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton.

One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor. "A thriving wooer." Gibber.

Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof. Pope.

The European blackbird. "The woofell near at hand that hath a golden bill." Drayton.

Having a close texture; dense; as, a woofy cloud. J. Baillie.

The sailfish.