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wood 1       (wŏŏd)  Pronunciation Key  n.   The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin. This tissue, often cut and dried especially for use as building material and fuel. A dense growth of trees or underbrush covering a relatively small or confined area. Often used in the plural. A forest. Often used in the plural. Music A woodwind. Sports Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made chiefly of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft. A dense growth of trees or underbrush covering a relatively small or confined area. Often used in the plural. A forest. Often used in the plural. Music A woodwind. Sports Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made chiefly of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft. An object made of wood, especially: Music A woodwind. Sports Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made chiefly of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft. v.   wood·ed, wood·ing, woods v.   tr. To fuel with wood. To cover with trees; forest. v.   intr. To gather or be supplied with wood. adj.   Made or consisting of wood; wooden. Used or suitable for cutting, storing, or working with wood. woods Living, growing, or present in forests: woods animals; a woods path. [Middle English wode, from Old English wudu.]

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wood 2       (wŏŏd)  Pronunciation Key  adj.   Archaic Mentally unbalanced; insane. [Middle English, from Old English wōd; see wet-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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Wood       (wŏŏd)  Pronunciation Key  American artist noted for his paintings based on life in the Midwest, especially American Gothic (1930).

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Wood, Leonard 1860-1927.   American military leader and colonial administrator who was chief of staff of the U.S. Army (1910-1914) and governor-general of the Philippines (1921-1927).

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wood
noun
1.	the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
2.	the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area [syn: forest]
3.	United States film actress (1938-1981)
4.	English conductor (1869-1944)
5.	English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
6.	United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
7.	any wind instrument other than the brass instruments [syn: woodwind]
8.	a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; "metal woods are now standard"

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wood       (wd)  Pronunciation Key  The thick xylem of trees and shrubs, resulting from secondary growth by the vascular cambium, which produces new layers of living xylem. The accumulated living xylem is the sapwood. The older, dead xylem in the interior of the tree forms the heartwood. Often each cycle of growth of new wood is evident as a growth ring. The main components of wood are cellulose and lignin. woody adjective

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Wood Dale, IL (city, FIPS 82985) Location: 41.96585 N, 87.98107 W
Population (1990): 12425 (4697 housing units)
Area: 11.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60191

Wood Lake, NE (village, FIPS 53555) Location: 42.63906 N, 100.23677 W
Population (1990): 59 (51 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 69221

Wood Ridge, NJ Zip code(s): 07075

Wood River, IL (city, FIPS 83271) Location: 38.86215 N, 90.08477 W
Population (1990): 11490 (4961 housing units)
Area: 13.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 62095

Wood River, NE (city, FIPS 53660) Location: 40.82179 N, 98.59787 W
Population (1990): 1156 (454 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68883

Wood Lake, MN (city, FIPS 71446) Location: 44.65078 N, 95.53494 W
Population (1990): 406 (180 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 56297

Wood Village, OR (city, FIPS 83950) Location: 45.53346 N, 122.42028 W
Population (1990): 2814 (1122 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Wood County, OH (county, FIPS 173) Location: 41.36101 N, 83.62238 W
Population (1990): 113269 (41760 housing units)
Area: 1599.0 sq km (land), 8.3 sq km (water)

Wood County, TX (county, FIPS 499) Location: 32.78192 N, 95.38156 W
Population (1990): 29380 (14541 housing units)
Area: 1684.3 sq km (land), 118.0 sq km (water)

Wood County, WI (county, FIPS 141) Location: 44.45055 N, 90.04162 W
Population (1990): 73605 (28839 housing units)
Area: 2053.5 sq km (land), 43.1 sq km (water)

Wood County, WV (county, FIPS 107) Location: 39.21252 N, 81.51413 W
Population (1990): 86915 (37620 housing units)
Area: 951.4 sq km (land), 24.9 sq km (water)

Wood-Ridge, NJ (borough, FIPS 82570) Location: 40.85040 N, 74.08769 W
Population (1990): 7506 (2982 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Wood River Junct, RI Zip code(s): 02894

Ridge Wood Heights, FL (CDP, FIPS 60475) Location: 27.28702 N, 82.51347 W
Population (1990): 4851 (2232 housing units)
Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

Hay-Wood City, MO (village, FIPS 31204) Location: 37.01179 N, 89.60012 W
Population (1990): 263 (88 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Wood, SD (town, FIPS 72620) Location: 43.49676 N, 100.47982 W
Population (1990): 73 (48 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57585

Willow Wood, OH Zip code(s): 45696

Camp Wood, TX (city, FIPS 12388) Location: 29.66886 N, 100.01130 W
Population (1990): 595 (271 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 78833

Meadow Wood, FL (CDP, FIPS 43800) Location: 28.38530 N, 81.36661 W
Population (1990): 4876 (1654 housing units)
Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Fort Leonard Wood, MO (CDP, FIPS 25264) Location: 37.70521 N, 92.15796 W
Population (1990): 15863 (2870 housing units)
Area: 251.7 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)

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Fos"sil\, a. [L. fossilis, fr. fodere to dig: cf. F. fossile. See Fosse.]

1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.

2. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.

Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.

Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus.

Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime.

Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. --Raymond.

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Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. ['e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.]

1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.

Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread.

2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.

3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.

4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.

5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. --Thackeray.

6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]

7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew.

8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton.

9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.

10. (Zo["o]l.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.

Archimedes screw, Compound screw, Foot screw, etc. See under Archimedes, Compound, Foot, etc.

A screw loose, something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H. Martineau.

Endless, or perpetual, {screw, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a worm.

Lag screw. See under Lag.

Micrometer screw, a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces.

Right and left screw, a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions.

Screw alley. See Shaft alley, under Shaft.

Screw bean. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree (Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties.

Screw bolt, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a key bolt. See 1st Bolt, 3.

Screw box, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw.

Screw dock. See under Dock.

Screw engine, a marine engine for driving a screw propeller.

Screw gear. See Spiral gear, under Spiral.

Screw jack. Same as Jackscrew.

Screw key, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench.

Screw machine. (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods.

Screw pine (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus Pandanus, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves.

Screw plate, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies.

Screw press, a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw.

Screw propeller, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw.

Screw shell (Zo["o]l.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See Turritella.

Screw steamer, a steamship propelled by a screw.

Screw thread, the spiral rib which forms a screw.

Screw stone (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite.

Screw tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Helicteres, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called twisted-horn, and twisty.

Screw valve, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw.

Screw worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an American fly (Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results.

Screw wrench. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw.

To put the screw, or screws, on, to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce.

To put under the screw or screws, to subject to pressure; to force.

Wood screw, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of Wood screw, under Wood.

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Sum"mer\, n. [OE. sumer, somer, AS. sumor, sumer; akin to OFries. sumur, D. zomer, OS. sumar, G. sommer, OHG. & Icel. sumar, Dan. sommer, Sw. sommar, W. haf, Zend hama, Skr. sam[=a] year. [root]292.] The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

Note: North of the equator summer is popularly taken to include the months of June, July, and August. Astronomically it may be considered, in the northern hemisphere, to begin with the summer solstice, about June 21st, and to end with the autumnal equinox, about September 22d.

Indian summer, in North America, a period of warm weather late in autumn, usually characterized by a clear sky, and by a hazy or smoky appearance of the atmosphere, especially near the horizon. The name is derived probably from the custom of the Indians of using this time in preparation for winter by laying in stores of food.

Saint Martin's summer. See under Saint.

Summer bird (Zo["o]l.), the wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]

Summer colt, the undulating state of the air near the surface of the ground when heated. [Eng.]

Summer complaint (Med.), a popular term for any diarrheal disorder occurring in summer, especially when produced by heat and indigestion.

Summer coot (Zo["o]l.), the American gallinule. [Local, U.S.]

Summer cypress (Bot.), an annual plant (Kochia Scoparia) of the Goosefoot family. It has narrow, ciliate, crowded leaves, and is sometimes seen in gardens.

Summer duck. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The wood duck. (b) The garganey, or summer teal. See Illust. of Wood duck, under Wood.

Summer fallow, land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds.

Summer rash (Med.), prickly heat. See under Prickly.

Summer sheldrake (Zo["o]l.), the hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]

Summer snipe. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The dunlin. (b) The common European sandpiper. (c) The green sandpiper.

Summer tanager (Zo["o]l.), a singing bird (Piranga rubra) native of the Middle and Southern United States. The male is deep red, the female is yellowish olive above and yellow beneath. Called also summer redbird.

Summer teal (Zo["o]l.), the blue-winged teal. [Local, U.S.]

Summer wheat, wheat that is sown in the spring, and matures during the summer following. See Spring wheat.

Summer yellowbird. (Zo["o]l.) See Yellowbird.

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Vin"e*gar\, n. [OE. vinegre, F. vinaigre; vin wine (L. vinum) + aigre sour. See Wine, and Eager, a.]

1. A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.

Note: The characteristic sourness of vinegar is due to acetic acid, of which it contains from three to five per cent. Wine vinegar contains also tartaric acid, citric acid, etc.

2. Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.

Here's the challenge: . . . I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't. --Shak.

Aromatic vinegar, strong acetic acid highly flavored with aromatic substances.

Mother of vinegar. See 4th Mother.

Radical vinegar, acetic acid.

Thieves' vinegar. See under Thief.

Vinegar eel (Zo["o]l.), a minute nematode worm (Leptodera oxophila, or Anguillula acetiglutinis), commonly found in great numbers in vinegar, sour paste, and other fermenting vegetable substances; -- called also vinegar worm.

Vinegar lamp (Chem.), a fanciful name of an apparatus designed to oxidize alcohol to acetic acid by means of platinum.

Vinegar plant. See 4th Mother.

Vinegar tree (Bot.), the stag-horn sumac (Rhus typhina), whose acid berries have been used to intensify the sourness of vinegar.

Wood vinegar. See under Wood.

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Wedge"-tailed"\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.

Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle (Aquila audax) which feeds on various small species of kangaroos, and on lambs; -- called also mountain eagle, bold eagle, and eagle hawk.

Wedge-tailed gull, an arctic gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in which the plumage is tinged with rose; -- called also Ross's gull.