woodthrush (wudthrush)

1. The mistle thrush. [Local, Scotland.] -2. In the United States, Turdus ( Hylocichla ) mus tel in us, a beautiful thrush of a ru et hue above, pa ing into olivaceous on the rump and tail, the under parts pure white or faintly tinged with buff on the breast, with a profusion of arrow-headed blackish spots. It is 7 to 8 inches long, and about 13 in extent. It abounds in copses and woods of eastern parts of the United States, is an exquisite songster, and nests in bushes or low trees, laying four or five robin blue eggs without spots, 1 inches long by 1 inch broad. It is migratory, breeds throughout its range, and is rather southerly, not going north of New England. It is the most strongly marked species of its subgenus. The name is sometimes extended to the several species of the same subgenus ( Hylocichla ), the hermit-thrush, olive ward.] A forester; a land reeve. She [a forest] hath also her peculiar Officers, as Foresters, Verderers, Regarder ers, Agisters, . Whereas a Chase or Park hath only Keepers and Woodwards . Howell, Letters, iv. 16. The wood - ward , who watched the forest, could claim every tree that the wind blew down. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 317. Woodward i a (wud-wär'di-ä), n. [NL. (Smith, 1790), named after Thomas J. Woodward, an English botanist.] A small genus of polypod i a ceo us ferns, the chain ferns, mostly natives of north temperate regions. They are large ferns with pinnatifid or pinnate fronds, and linear or oblong sori which are sunk in cavities of the frond, arranged in a chain-like row parallel to the midribs of the pinne. The indusium is fixed by its outer margin to the fruiting veinlet, and covers the cavity like alid. Of the 6 species 3 are found in North America. See also cut under sorus.