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(a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at right angles to the grain of the wood. (b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same course.

e; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.

A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.

The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

, with retiring habits, but having a sweet song. -- Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

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The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe. [Prov. Eng.]

The European green woodpecker or yaffle. [Written also high- hoo.]

Rough and coarse; boorish. [R.] Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. Life of A. Wood.

r Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. Woodward.

cks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. Prior. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson.

A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. "Every holt and heath." Chaucer. She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. Tennyson.

Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth (Zoöl.), the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.

A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.