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To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

Wood-destroying; -- said of certain insects.

Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.

acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.

An explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera.

nd in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.

e (Eugenia Smithii), having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The wood is hard and fine-grained.

h has very large flattish seeds. (b) The seed of this plant, much used for food. -- Lima wood (Bot.), the beautiful dark wood of the South American tree Cæsalpinia echinata.

e picture or decoration so produced. Adorned with illumination which we now call limning. Wood.

or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. Woodward.

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To melt; to become liquid. [Obs.] Woodward.

A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.

A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.

Petrified wood. [Obs.]

Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. Boyle.

Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. Boyle.