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A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).…

A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.

See Letterwood.

The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.

The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood.

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

. Amboyna wood.

Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.

The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.

A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma Latisiliqua) the wood of which is used for boat trimming.

Leatherwood.

The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).

A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla.

Brazil wood.

The wood of the olive.

The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.

Same as Oarweed.

The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

An ericaceous shrub (Leucothoë acuminata) of the southern United States, from the wood of which pipe bowls are made.

Lignum-vitæ.