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o haul logs to a sawmill. When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. U. S. Grant. To haul over the coals. See under Coal. -- To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Keble.

(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.

bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zoöl.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Ce…

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

A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.

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.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

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.