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An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.

A genus of ferns, one species of which (Woodwardia radicans) is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.

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

tion; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

Vehement; excessive. [R.] The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Woodward.

rotuberance; to be protuberant or round. Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. Woodward.

e made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with all possible diligence. Woodward.

To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.] This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. Woodward.

London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

Migration together. [R.] Woodward.

or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot.

adjustment; disposition. [Obs.] Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. Woodward.

To divide into chambers or cells. Woodward.

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [Obs.] Woodward.

combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.

Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.