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ke you As cherry is to cherry. Shak. Like master, like man. Old Prov. He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

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.

. Amboyna wood.

Linsey-woolsey.

Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.

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.

alse; worthless; slothful. [Obs.] Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton.

Petrified wood. [Obs.]

A low grade of wool. Livery gown, the gown worn by a liveryman in London.

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.

A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.

rried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair. These gray locks, the pursuivants of death. Shak.

A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.