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on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber. Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again. Pope. Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended. Bancroft.

A dweller in a woodland.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

y. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species (Rangifer Caribou). Barren Ground caribou. See under Barren. -- Woodland caribou, the common reindeer (Rangifer Caribou) of the northern forests of America.

A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. [U.S.]

two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book.]

Made of fir; abounding in firs. In firry woodlands making moan. Tennyson.

of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

meters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. Coleridge.…

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.

A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.

mine are general." Shak. These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden. The broad woodland parceled into farms. Tennyson.

ly text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth.

Vast woodland plains of South America.

A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.

Dress; gear; ornaments. Seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim. Sir W. Scott.

h tears watering the ground. Milton. Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands. Longfellow.