<B>woody</B> (1), adjective, <B>woodier,</B> <B>woodiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having many trees; covered with trees. <BR> <I>Ex. a woody hillside.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>of the nature of or consisting of wood; ligneous. <DD><B> b. </B>of which wood is a constituent part; forming wood. <BR> <I>Ex. the woody parts of a plant.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>like wood; tough and stringy. <BR> <I>Ex. Turnips become woody when they are old.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>of, having to do with, or situated in a wood. <DD><B> b. </B>(Obsolete.) belonging to, inhabiting, or growing in woods or woodland; sylvan. </DL>
<A NAME="woody">
<B>woody</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>woodies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) widdy (rope). </DL>
<A NAME="woodyard">
<B>woodyard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a yard or enclosure in which wood is chopped, sawed, or stored, especially for use as fuel. </DL>
<B>wooer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or animal that woos; suitor. </DL>
<A NAME="woof">
<B>woof</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the threads or yarn running from side to side across a loom, or those in a woven fabric which cross the warp; filling; weft. <DD><B> 2. </B>fabric; cloth; texture. </DL>
<A NAME="woof">
<B>woof</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the sound of a dog barking. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make such a sound. </DL>
<A NAME="woofer">
<B>woofer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a high-fidelity loudspeaker for reproducing sounds below the treble register. </DL>
<A NAME="wooingly">
<B>wooingly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the manner of wooing; invitingly. </DL>
<A NAME="wool">
<B>wool, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the fine, soft, curly hair of sheep and some other animals such as the goat and alpaca. It is characterized by its property of felting due to the overlapping of minute surface scales. Sheep's wool is next to cotton in importance as a material for clothing. <DD><B> 2. </B>short, thick, curly hair. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of various fine, fibrous substances, naturally or artificially produced, resembling wool. <DD><B> 4a. </B>clothing or material made of wool. <BR> <I>Ex. We wear wool in cold weather.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>yarn made of wool, used for knitting, embroidery, and weaving; worsted. <DD><B> 5. </B>a downy substance found on certain plants, or the furry hair of some insect larvae, such as the caterpillar. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=wool sponge.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>made of wool; woolen. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the manufacture, storage, transportation, or sale of wool or woolen goods. <BR><I>expr. <B>pull the wool over one's eyes,</B> </I>(Informal.) to deceive or trick one. <BR> <I>Ex. I don't propose he shall pull the wool over my eyes (William Dean Howells).</I> adj. <B>woollike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="woolclip">
<B>wool clip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the quantity of raw wool produced annually; total amount of wool sheared in a year. </DL>
<A NAME="woolcomber">
<B>woolcomber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that combs or cards wool. </DL>
<A NAME="wooled">
<B>wooled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> covered with wool; with the wool still on; unshorn. <BR> <I>Ex. a wooled lamb, wooled sheepskins.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="wooled">
<B>-wooled,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) having ______ wool. <BR> <I>Ex. Fine-wooled = having fine wool.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="woolen">
<B>woolen, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>made of wool. <BR> <I>Ex. a woolen suit.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with wool or cloth made of wool; that makes things from wool. <BR> <I>Ex. a woolen mill.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> yarn or cloth made of wool. The fibers in woolen lie in all directions, resulting in a soft, fuzzy surface. <BR><I>expr. <B>woolens,</B> </I>cloth or clothing made of wool. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother puts our woolens in plastic bags every summer to protect them against moths. The exportation of Irish woolens to the colonies and to foreign countries was prohibited (George Bancroft).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="woolfat">
<B>wool fat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fatty coating on sheep's wool; lanolin. </DL>
<A NAME="woolfell">
<B>woolfell, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sheepskin with the fleece on it. </DL>
<A NAME="woolgather">
<B>woolgather, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to indulge in idle imagining or daydreaming. <BR> <I>Ex. My brain sometimes woolgathered or wandered, sometimes concentrated on ... problems (Robert Kotlowitz).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="woolgatherer">
<B>woolgatherer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a daydreaming or absent-minded person. </DL>
<A NAME="woolgathering">
<B>woolgathering, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an absorption in thinking or daydreaming; absent-mindedness. <DD><B> 2. </B>the gathering up of fragments of wool torn from sheep, as by bushes. <DD><I>adj. </I> inattentive; absent-minded; dreamy. </DL>
<A NAME="woolgrease">
<B>wool grease,</B> <B>=wool fat.</B></DL>
<A NAME="woolgrower">
<B>woolgrower, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who raises sheep for their wool. </DL>
<A NAME="woolgrowing">
<B>woolgrowing, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> producing sheep and wool. <DD><I>noun </I> the raising of sheep for their wool. </DL>
<A NAME="woolhat">
<B>woolhat, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> a Southern farmer or back-country rustic. <BR> <I>Ex. The businessmen like him; so do the Republicans and the downstate woolhats (Harper's).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of the Southern back-country region. <BR> <I>Ex. a woolhat politician.</I> </DL>
<B>woolliness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being woolly. </DL>
<A NAME="woolly">
<B>woolly, </B>adjective, <B>-lier,</B> <B>-liest,</B> noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>consisting of wool; fleecy. <BR> <I>Ex. the woolly coat of a sheep.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of the nature, texture, or appearance of wool; like wool. <BR> <I>Ex. woolly hair, woolly clouds.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>covered with wool or something like it. <BR> <I>Ex. woolly sheep.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) not clear; confused and hazy; muddled. <BR> <I>Ex. Both his thinking and his writing are woolly. The report ... is woolly in such a way that almost anything can be read into it, or out of it (Manchester Guardian).</I> (SYN) vague, fuzzy, indistinct, unclear. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S. Informal, Figurative.) rough and uncivilized like the Western part of the United States in frontier times (used especially in <I>wild and woolly</I>). <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) an article of clothing made from wool. Also, <B>woooly.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Western U.S.) a sheep. <BR><I>expr. <B>woollies,</B> </I>(Informal.) woolen underwear. <BR> <I>Ex. I can still feel the thrill of exchanging my prickly woollies for soft cool cotton (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="woollybear">
<B>woolly bear,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the hair-covered larva of a tiger moth. </DL>
<A NAME="woollyheaded">
<B>woolly-headed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having woolly hair on the head. <DD><B> 2. </B>stupid; muddle-headed. </DL>
<A NAME="woollymammoth">
<B>woolly mammoth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, extinct elephant formerly native to Europe and northern Asia, remains of which have been found in Siberia; hairy mammoth. </DL>
<A NAME="woollymonkey">
<B>woolly monkey,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large monkey with thick, soft, dark fur that lives in the western Amazon Valley of South America. </DL>
<A NAME="woollyrhinoceros">
<B>woolly rhinoceros,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an extinct two-horned rhinoceros with a thick woolly covering. Woolly rhinoceroses have been preserved where they fell into crevasses in deep ice. </DL>
<A NAME="woolmaggot">
<B>wool maggot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the larva of the blowfly. </DL>
<A NAME="woolman">
<B>woolman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a dealer in wool; wool merchant. </DL>
<A NAME="woolpack">
<B>woolpack, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large cloth bag for carrying wool. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bundle or bale of wool. <DD><B> 3. </B>a round, fleecy, cumulus cloud. </DL>
<A NAME="woolsack">
<B>woolsack, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bag of wool. <DD><B> 2a. </B>the cushion, a large cloth-covered bag of wool, on which the Lord Chancellor sits in the British House of Lords. <DD><B> b. </B>the office of Lord Chancellor. </DL>
<A NAME="woolshed">
<B>woolshed, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a building or enclosure where sheep are sheared and their wool processed and stored. </DL>
<A NAME="woolskin">
<B>woolskin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sheepskin with the fleece on it. </DL>
<A NAME="woolsorter">
<B>woolsorter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who sorts wool, especially one skilled in dividing wool in lots according to length, fineness of fiber, and other characteristics. </DL>
<A NAME="woolsortersdisease">
<B>woolsorters' disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a form of anthrax attacking man and caused by the inhalation of dust contaminated with spores of a bacterium; pulmonary anthrax. </DL>
<A NAME="woolsponge">
<B>wool sponge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain tough, flexible horse sponges, important commercially, especially the sheepswool. </DL>
<A NAME="woolstapler">
<B>wool stapler,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a merchant who buys wool from the producer, grades it, and sells it to the manufacturer. </DL>
<A NAME="wooltop">
<B>wool top,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> fleece from the sheep's back, cleaned and combed into strands, not yet spun into yarn. </DL>
<A NAME="woolwax">
<B>wool wax,</B> <B>=wool fat.</B></DL>
<A NAME="woolwork">
<B>woolwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> needlework done with wool, as on canvas. </DL>
<A NAME="wooly">
<B>wooly, </B>adjective, <B>woolier,</B> <B>wooliest,</B> noun, pl. <B>woolies.</B> <B>=woolly.</B></DL>
