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ening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.

e of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech. Hop hornbeam. (…

An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

(Uroceridæ) of large hyminopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvæ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

ites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.

A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. Wood.

A wood. See Hurst.

To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

. Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton. More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden.

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.

ssage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton.

; result produced by pressure or influence. The impresses of the insides of these shells. Woodward. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. Shak.

A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like. Proof impression, one of the early impressions taken from an engraving, before the plate or block is worn.

the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, is called incense tree. -- Incense wood, the fragrant wood of the tropical American tree Bursera heptaphylla.