Wood, Mrs. Ellen (Price)

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• Mrs.

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• Wood

  ·vi To take or get a supply of wood. II. Wood ·noun Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. ...

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• Wood

  See Forest. ...

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• wood

  In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of troubles, puzzled, or at a loss what course to take i...

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• to wood

  To supply or get supplies of wood.--Webster. The boats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in their ...

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• Wood

  [Forest] ...

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• wood and wood

  When two pieces of timber are so let into each other as to join close. Also, when a tree-nail is dri...

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• Bayly, Ada Ellen

  (d. 1903) Novelist, wrote several stories under the name of "Edna Lyall," which were very popular. ...

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• Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Felkin)

  Novelist, etc. Concerning Isabel Carnaby (1898), A Double Thread (1899), The Farringdons (1900), Fue...

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• Aloes wood

  ·- ·see <<Agalloch>>. ...

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• Amboyna wood

  ·- A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Ind...

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• Bethabara wood

  ·- A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, ·etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be ...

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• Brazil wood

  ·- The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; — so called before the discovery of America. II. Br...

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• Calamander wood

  ·- A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very...

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• Campeachy Wood

  ·- <<Logwood>>. ...

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• Cassava wood

  ·add. ·- A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceae. ...

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• Cocus wood

  ·- A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments. ...

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• Gopher wood

  ·- A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. ...

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• Kiabooca wood

  ·- ·see Kyaboca wood. ...

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• Kyaboca wood

  ·- Amboyna wood. II. Kyaboca wood ·- Sandalwood (Santalum album). ...

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• Lingoa wood

  ·- Amboyna wood. ...

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• Madeira wood

  ·add. ·- The mahogany tree (Swietenia Mahogoni). II. Madeira wood ·add. ·- A West Indian leguminous...

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• Myall wood

  ·- A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obta...

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• Nicaragua wood

  ·- Brazil wood. ...

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• Omander wood

  ·- The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. ...

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• Rosetta wood

  ·- An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasio...

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• Sapan wood

  ·- A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighb...

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• Sappan wood

  ·- Sapan wood. ...

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• Shittim wood

  ·noun The wood of the shittah tree. ...

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• Thyine wood

  ·- The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called...

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• Wood gum

  ·add. ·- <<Xylan>>. ...

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• Wood hyacinth

  ·add. ·- A European squill (Scilla nonscripta) having a scape bearing a raceme of drooping blue, pur...

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• Wood partridge

  ·add. ·- The Canada grouse. II. Wood partridge ·add. ·- Any of several small partridges of Java, Su...

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• Wood tick

  ·- Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly ...

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• Wood-bound

  ·adj Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. ...

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• Wood-layer

  ·noun A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants ...

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• Wood-note

  ·noun A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. ...

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• Wood-sare

  ·noun A kind of froth seen on herbs. ...

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• Wood-sere

  ·noun The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. ...

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• Wood-wash

  ·noun ·Alt. of Wood-waxen. ...

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• Wood-wax

  ·noun ·Alt. of Wood-waxen. ...

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• Wood-waxen

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• Thyine wood

  Mentioned only in Rev. 18:12 among the articles which would cease to be purchased when Babylon fell....

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• Wood-offering

  (Neh. 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah arrangements were made, probably on ...

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• Wood, or À Wood, Anthony

  (1632-1695) Antiquary, was b. at Oxf., where he was ed. and spent most of his life. His antiquarian...

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• Wood Street

  North out of Cheapside, at No.122, to London Wall (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within and Cr...

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• Wood Wharf

  On the east and west sides of Trigg Lane, in Queenhithe Ward (O. and M. 1677, and Strype, 1720 and 1...

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• wood pecker

  A bystander, who bets whilst another plays. ...

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• beef-wood

  n. the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...

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• blood-wood

  or Blood-tree n. a nameapplied, with various epithets, to many of the Gum-trees (q.v.), especially...

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• box-wood

  n. a New Zealand wood, Olealanceolata, Hook., N.O. Jasminea (Maori name, Maire). Used by the `Welli...

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• camphor-wood

  n. an Australian timber; the woodof Callitris (Frenea) robusta, Cunn., N.O. Coniferae. Called also ...

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• coopers-wood

  n. the timber of an Australiantree, Alphitonia excelsa, Reiss, N.O. Rhamneae.The wood becomes dark w...

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• cotton-wood

  n. the timber of an Australiantree, Bedfordia salicina, De C., N.O. Compositae.Called Dog-wood (q.v...

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• ivory-wood

  n. an Australian timber, Siphonodon australe, Benth., N.O. Celastrinae. ...

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• leather-wood

  n. i.q. pinkwood (q.v.). ...

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• lemon-wood

  n. one of the names given bysettlers to the New Zealand tree called by Maoris Tarata (q.v.), or Map...

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• marble(-)wood

  n. name applied to awhitish-coloured mottled timber, Olea paniculata,R. Br., N.O. Jasmineae; called...

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• milk-wood

  n. a Northern Territory namefor Melaleuca leucadendron, Linn.; called also Paperbark-tree (q.v.). ...

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• musk-wood

  n. See musk-tree. ...

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• partridge-wood

  n. another name for the Cabbage-Palm (q.v.). ...

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• scent-wood

  a Tasmanian evergreen shrub, Alyxiabuxifolia, R. Br., N.O. Apocyneae, of the dogbanefamily. ...

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• tallow-wood

  n. another name for one of the Stringy-barks (q.v.), Eucalyptus microcorys,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae...

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• tar-wood

  n. name given by the Otago bushmen tothe tree Darrydium colensoi, Hook.; Maori name, Manoao (q.v.)....

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• tulip-wood

  n. The name is given,in Australia, to Aphnanthe philipinensis, Planch., N.O. Urticaceae, and to the...

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• turnip-wood

  n. the timbers of the trees Akania hillii, J. Hook., N.O. Sapindaceae,and Dysoxylon Muelleri, Benth...

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• white wood

  See waddy wood ...

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• waddy wood

  or White Wood n. name given in Tasmania to the tree Pittosporum bicolor,Hook., N.O. Pittosporeae; ...

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• wood-duck

  n. a name given by the colonists ofNew South Wales and «Swan River» to the Maned Goose, Branta juba...

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• wood savages

  See wood natives ...

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• wood natives

  or Wood Savages obsolete names for the Australian aborigines. 1817. O'Hara, `History of New South ...

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• yellow-wood

  a name applied to several Australiantrees with the epithets of Dark, Light, Deep, etc., inallusion t...

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• black wood

  Hemlock, pine, spruce, and fir. Maine. ...

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• button wood

  (Platanus occidentalis.) The popular name in New England of the sycamore tree; so called from the ha...

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• stam-wood

  the roots of trees, stubbed up. S. ...

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• billet-wood

  Small wood mostly used for dunnage in stowing ships' cargoes, also for fuel, usually sold by the fat...

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• dead wood

  Certain blocks of timber, generally oak, fayed on the upper side of the keel, particularly at the ex...

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• fathom-wood

  Slab and other offal of timber, sold at the yards, by fathom lots: cubic measurement. ...

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• hawse-wood

  A general name for the hawse-timbers. ...

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• lag-wood

  The larger sticks from the head of an oak-tree when felled. ...

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• peon-wood

  See poon-wood. ...

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• touch-wood

  See punk. ...

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• wood, to

  A gun is said to wood when it takes the port-sills or port-sides, or the trucks the water-ways. ♦ ...

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• wood-ends

  See hood-ends. ...

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• wood-mulls

  Large thick hose worn by the men in coasters and fishing-boats. ...

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• wood-sheathing

  All plank applied to strengthen a vessel. (See double, to.) ...

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• Thyine Wood

  occurs in (Revelation 18:12) where the margin has "sweet" (wood). There can be little doubt that the...

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• Harrison, Miss Jane Ellen

  LL.D., etc. (b. 1850) Writer on Greek art and religion. Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna

  (1667-1723) Dramatist and actress, was the dau. of a gentleman of the name of either Rawkins or Fre...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Gatty, Mrs. Alfred (Margaret Scott)

  (1809-1873) Dau. of Rev. A.J. Scott, D.D., a navy chaplain, who served under, and was the trusted f...

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• Godwin, Mrs. Mary (Wollstonecraft)

  (1759-1797) Miscellaneous writer, was of Irish extraction. Her f. was a spend-thrift of bad habits,...

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• Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace Frances (Moody)

  (1799-1861) Novelist, dau. of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was b. She m. a Captain Gore, w...

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• Grant, Mrs. Anne (M'Vicar)

  (1755-1838) Was b. in Glasgow, and in 1779 m. the Rev. James Grant, minister of Laggan, Inverness-s...

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• Haywood, Mrs. Eliza (Fowler)

  (1693-1756) Dramatist and novelist, b. in London, was early m. to a Mr. H., but the union turning o...

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• Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy

  (b. 1620) Biographer, dau. of Sir Allan Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, m. in 1638 John,...

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• Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth (Simpson)

  (1753-1821) Novelist and dramatist, dau. of a Suffolk farmer. In a romantic fit she left her home a...

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• Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine (Sawbridge)

  (1731-1791) Dau. of a landed proprietor of Kent, was an advocate of republicanism, and a sympathise...

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• Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (Wilson)

  (1828-1897) Novelist and miscellaneous writer, was b. near Musselburgh. Her literary output began w...

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• Opie, Mrs. Amelia (Alderson)

  (1769-1853) Novelist, dau. of a medical man, was b. at Norwich. In 1798 she m. John Opie, the paint...

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• Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann (Ward)

  (1764-1823) Novelist, only dau. of parents in a respectable position, in 1787 m. Mr. William Radcli...

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• Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia (Huntley)

  (1791-1865) American verse writer, was an extraordinarily copious writer of smooth, sentimental ver...

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• Smith, Mrs. Charlotte (Turner)

  (1749-1806) Was m. at 15 to a West Indian merchant, who by a series of misfortunes and imprudences ...

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• Somerville, Mrs. Mary (Fairfax)

  (1780-1872) Mathematician and writer on science, dau. of Admiral Sir William G. Fairfax, b. at Jedb...

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• Trollope, Mrs. Frances (Milton)

  (1780-1863) Novelist and miscellaneous writer, b. at Stapleton near Bristol, m. in 1809 Thomas A.T....

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• Webster, Mrs. Augusta (Davies)

  (1837-1894) Poet and translator, dau. of Admiral Davies, m. Mr. Thomas Webster, a solicitor. She wr...

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• Besant, Mrs. Annie

  (b. 1847) Theosophist. Re-incarnation (1892), Death and After (1893), Karma (1895), The Self and it...

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• Bland, Mrs. Hubert ("E. Nesbit")

  (b. 1858) Poet and novelist. Lays and Legends (1886), second series (1892), A Pomander of Verse (18...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Clifford, Mrs. W.K. (Lane)

  Novelist, etc. Mrs. Keith's Crime (1885), Love Letters of a Worldly Woman (1891), Aunt Anne (1893), ...

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• Cotes, Mrs. Everard (Duncan)

  (b. 1861) Novelist. A Social Departure (1890), American Girl in London (1891), The Simple Adventure...

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• Dudeney, Mrs. Henry (Whiffin)

  (b. 1866) Novelist. A Man with a Maid (1897), Folly Corner, Men of Marlowe's, Robin Brilliant, Wise...

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• Esler, Mrs. Erminda (Rentoul)

  Novelist. The Way of Transgressors (1890), The Way they loved at Grimpat (1894), 'Mid Green Pastures...

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• Meynell, Mrs. Alice (Thompson)

  Poet and essayist. Preludes, The Rhythm of Life (1893), The Colour of Life (1896), The Flower of the...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Reeves, Mrs. H.

  see Mathers, Helen. ...

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• Rhys, Mrs. Grace

  (b. 1865) Novelist and essayist. Mary Dominic (1898), The Wooing of Sheila (1901), The Bride (1909)...

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• Smith, Mrs. Burnett ("Annie S. Swan")

  Novelist. Aldersyde, Carlowrie, A Lost Ideal, A Divided House, Not Yet (1898), etc. ...

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• Smith, Mrs. Toulmin

  see Meade, L.T.. ...

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• Stannard, Mrs. Arthur ("John Strange Winter")

  (b. 1856) Novelist. Bootle's Baby, Army Society, Beautiful Jim, The Soul of the Bishop, Grip, He we...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Ward, Mrs. Humphrey (Arnold)

  (b. 1851) Novelist. Milly and Olly (1881), Miss Bretherton (1886), Robert Elsmere (1888), The Histo...

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• Sea wood louse

  ·- A sea slater. ...

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• Ephraim, Wood of

  A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was k...

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• Wood, John George

  (1827-1889) Writer on natural history, s. of a surgeon, b. in London, and ed. at home and at Oxf., ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Alban (St.), Wood Street

  On the east side of Wood Street, at the corner of Little Love Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate ...

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• Great Wood Street

  See Wood Street. ...

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• Little Wood Street

  See Wood Street. ...

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• (St.) Michael Wood Street

  On the west side of Wood Street, and north side of Huggin Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Within (O.S. 188...

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• Red Wood Alley

  West out of Bishopsgate Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). Called " Ge...

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• Wood Green Court

  South-east out of Harrow Alley, Middlesex Street. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-O.S...

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• Wood Street Compter

  On the east side of Wood Street, in Cripplegate Ward Within. One of the Sheriffs' Prisons. First m...

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• Wood Street Square

  West out of Hart Street at No.3 at its junction with Monkwell Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (P.O...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• king's wood lion

  An Ass. Kingswood is famous for the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit that plac...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• botany-bay wood

  See botany-bay oak ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dead-wood fence

  n. The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...

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• deep yellow-wood

  n. Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...

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• light yellow-wood

  i.q. long-jack (q.v.). ...

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• seame of wood

  a horse-load. S. ...

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• churd of wood

  See cord of wood ...

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• cord or churd of wood

  ; as firewood. A statute stack is 8 feet long, 4 feet broad, and 4 feet high. ...

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• dead-wood knees

  The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...

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• Alexander, Mrs. Cecil F. (Humphreys)

  (1818-1895) dau. of Maj. H., b. in Co. Waterford, m. the Rev. W. Alexander, afterwards Bishop of De...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria (Francis)

  (1802-1880) Was the author of many once popular tales, Hobomok, The Rebels, Philothes, etc. ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Ewing, Mrs. Juliana Horatia (Gatty)

  (1842-1885) Writer of children's stories, dau. of Mrs. Alfred Gatty (q.v.), also a writer for child...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Hall, Mrs. Anna Maria (Fielding)

  (1800-1881) Novelist, was b. in Dublin, but left Ireland at the age of 15. Nevertheless, that count...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Jameson, Mrs. Anna Brownell (Murphy)

  (1794-1860) Writer on art, dau. of Denis B.M., a distinguished miniature painter, m. Robert Jameson...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn

  (1822-1898) Novelist and miscellaneous writer, dau. of a clergyman, settled in London in 1845, and ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Shelley, Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)

  (1797-1851) Novelist, b. in London, the only child of William Godwin (q.v.) and Mary Wollstonecraft...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha (Butt)

  (1775-1851) Writer of children's books, m. in 1803 Captain H. Sherwood, and went to India, where sh...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Southey, Mrs. Caroline Anne (Bowles)

  (1786-1854) Poetess, dau. of a captain in the navy, submitted a poem, Ellen Fitzarthur to Southey (...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher

  (1811?-1896) Novelist and miscellaneous writer, dau. of Dr. Lyman Beecher, a well-known American cl...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson

  (b. 1849) Novelist and dramatist. That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), Haworths (1879), A Fair Barbarian (...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa (Stewart)

  (b. 1839) Novelist and writer for children. Carrots, Cuckoo Clock, Herr Baby, The Boys, etc.; novel...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Praed, Mrs. Rosa Caroline Mackworth ("Mrs. Campbell Praed")

  (b. 1851) Australian novelist. Policy and Passion (1881), Nadine (1882), The Head Station (1885), M...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Ritchie, Mrs. Anne Isabella (Thackeray)

  (b. 1837) Novelist, etc. The Story of Elizabeth (1863), The Village on the Cliff (1865), To Esther ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie (Webster)

  (b. 1847) Novelist. Wide-awake Stories (1884), From the Five Rivers (1893), The Potter's Thumb (189...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Walford, Mrs. Lucy Bethia

  (b. 1845) Novelist. Mr. Smith (1874), Pauline (1877), Troublesome Daughters (1880), The Baby's Gran...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Castle Inn, Wood Street

  On the east side of Wood Street at No. 26, in Cripplegate Ward Within, a few doors north of Gresham ...

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• Gold Street, Wood Street

  See Goldsmith Street. ...

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• Huggin Lane, Wood Street

  West out of Wood Street, at 115, to Gutter Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within. First...

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• Passage to Wood Street

  See Little Love Lane. ...

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• Wood and Co.'s Wharf

  On the Thames at the south end of William Street, west of Chatham Place (Horwood, 1799). Former nam...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Wood Yard, Church Lane

  At the north-east end of Church Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720-Lond. Guide, 1753). Seems...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Wood Yard, Gravel Lane

  North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-Lond. Guide, 1755). Site now covered...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• babes in the wood

  Criminals in the stocks, or pillory. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Ephraim, The Wood Of

  a wood, or rather a forest, on the east of Jordan, in which the fatal battle was fought between the ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards)

  (1867-1906) Dau. of John Morgan, R. b. in Boston, Massachusetts. Most of her education was received...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Pasture, Mrs. Henry de la (Bonham)

  Novelist and dramatist. The Little Squire (1894), A Toy Tragedy, Deborah of Tod's (1897), Catherine ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Bull Inn, Wood Street, Cheapside

  See Bell Inn. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Great Love Lane, Wood Street

  See Love Lane. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Lyon in ye Wood Inn

  North out of the Wilderness, Dorset Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746). See Lion in ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Pav'd Court, Wood Street, Cheapside

  See Frying Pan Alley and St. Alban's Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• (St.) Peter de Wodestrate, Wood Street

  See St. Peter Westcheap. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• wood-locks of the rudder

  Pieces of timber sheathed with copper, in coppered ships, placed in the throating or scores of the s...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere

  (1663 or 1672-1724) Novelist, dramatist, and political writer, dau. of Sir Roger Manley, was decoye...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Coach and Horses Court, Wood Street

  See Coach and Horses' Yard4. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Coach and Horses' Inn, Wood Street

  See White Horse Inn. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Lion in the Wood Inn, Yard

  On the north side of the Wilderness, west of Dorset Street, Whitefriars. In Farringdon Ward Without ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• (St.) Peter de la Wodewarve, Wood Wharf

  See St. Peter Paul's Wharf. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.