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The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.

The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.

A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes. Burns.

or grievous; bitterness. Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood. Deut. xxix. 18. Roman wormwood (Bot.), an American weed (Ambrosia artemisiæfolia); hogweed. -- Tree wormwood (Bot.), a species of Artemisia (probably Artemisia variabilis) with woody stems. -- Wormwood hare (Zoöl.), a vari…

The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African…

A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.

A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis).

In the morning; every morning. [Obs.] And have such pleasant walks into the woods A-mornings. J. Fletcher.

One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

Of the nature of wormwood. "Absinthian bitterness." T. Randolph.

To impregnate with wormwood.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Watts.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.