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

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

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.

Fame; reputation; credit. Some in theiractions do woo, and affect honor and reputation. Bacon. If my honor is meant anything distinct from conscience, 't is no more than a regard to the censure and esteem of the world. Rogers.

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.

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.

d and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

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.