wood ford i a

[Named after J. Wood ford, who wrote an account of the plants round Edinburgh in 1824.] Bot.: A genus of Lythracem, now separated from Grislea, of which it was formerly considered a synonym. Wood ford i a (* Grislea ) to mentos a or flor i bund a , common in India, has a much-branched stem, se ile lanceolate leaves, covered beneath with white down, and axillary cymes of beautiful scarlet or purple flowers in immense profusion. It yields a gum like gum-tragacanth. The flowers, with alum for a mordant, give a red dye, occasionally used in India for silk. The leaves and flowers, together with the bark of Zizyphus xylopyra , are employed in tanning. Medicinally the dried flowers are stimulant and astringent; they are used by Hindu doctors simply in bowel complaints, with curdled milk in dysentery, and with honey in menorrhagia, also as an external application in hæmorrhages and in ulcers. *wood-head, *wode-hede, s. [Eng. wood , a.; -head.] Madne , fury. "Lucifer fel for his woodhede ." - Hampole : Psalms. wood-hew-er (ew as ū), s. [Eng. wood , s., and hewer .] Ornithology : 1. A popular name for the genus Xiphocolaptes (q. v.). Xiphocolaptes emigrans is the Northern Wood hewer. 2. ( Pl . ): The sub-family Dendrocolaptinæ (q. v.). wood-le, wud-dy, s. [WOOD, 8., or, perhaps, a corruption of withe (q. v.).] The gallows; also a withe, or rope of twisted wands, in which malefactors seem formerly to have been hanged. "Half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie." -Scott: Guy Manner ing, ch. xxviii. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1003.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1004.png:[blocks in formation] "The many mirthful jests, and wanton woodish sports." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 11. *wood'-kern, s. [Eng. wood (1), s., and kern .] A robber who infests woods; a forest-haunting bandit. ( P. Holland .)