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A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.

revalent observance; prevalent disease. This was the most received and prevalent opinion. Woodward.

p and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5.

A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. R. H. Dana, Ir.

A shrub (Euonymus Europæus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. Woodward.

o, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is produced in the distillation of wood, in the fermentation of various organic substances, as glycerin, calcium lactate, etc., and is obtained as a colorless liquid having a sharp, pungent odor. Propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member…

A mold; a matrix. [R.] Woodward.

especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.

to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods provide. Milton.

ds have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser. Woodward.

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

Ceratopogon or allied genus of the family Chironomidæ, found in swarms in various densely wooded or mountaneous regions. [U. S.]

A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play. At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. Pope.

A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.

Pertaining to, or designating, the acid liquid obtained in the distillation of wood, consisting essentially of impure acetic acid.

A yellow crystalline hydrocardon extracted from crude wood spirit; -- called also eblanin.

Derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in designating crude wood spirit.