woolpack (wulpak)

[ Two gentlemen making a marriage between their heirs over a woolpack . Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, i. 1. Enforcing a sack as big as a wool - pack into rooms at the first too narrow for your arm, when extended by their instruments: so that often they make the very decks to stretch therewith. Sandys , Travailes, p. 12. A cannon-ball always doth mischief in proportion to the resistance it meets with, and nothing so effectually deadens its force as a woolpack . Fielding , Amelia, x. 4. As wool - packs quash the leaden ball. Shenstone, Progre of Taste, i. When the work of generation was Between these woolly breeders in the act, The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands. 4. In bot ., covered with pubescence of and soft hairs like wool; lanate; to mentos eng White woolly currant-scale. See white1.-Woolly aphis, a plant-louse of the family Aphidide and either of the subfamilies Lachninæ and Pemphiginæ. Many of them secrete a white filamentous substance resembling wool. Schizoneura lanigera is the woolly root-louse of the apple, or the American blight of Great Britain and the British colonies. See Lachninæ, Pemphiginæ, Pemphi gus, root - louse, and Schizoneura (with cut). - Woolly bear the larva of any arctiid moth which is densely clothed with woolly hairs, as that of the tiger-moth; a member of the Ursinæ. See cuts under bear2, Euprepia, and tiger moth. Woolly beard-gra . See beard -gra .-Woolly chetah, the south African form of the chetah or hunting leopard, which differs in some respects from that of India, has been described as a distinct species ( Felis lanca ), and is also called Guepardus or Cynælur us jubatus, var. lane us. The fur is somewhat woolly, and the spots are brown in stead of black. - Woolly elephant, the hairy mammoth. Elephas primi genius. See mammoth. - Woolly indri, the woolly lemur. See indri.- Woolly lemur, the Madagascar Indris laniger. - Woolly louse, a woolly aphis of the genus Schizoneura, as S. lanigera; a woolly plant-louse. See cut under Schizoneura. - Woolly macaco, the Madagascar Lemur mongoz. - Woolly maki, the woolly lemur. -Woolly monkey, any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix. See cut under Lagothrix. - Woolly pastinum, a name given in the East Indies to a kind of red orpiment or sulphid of arsenic. -Woolly ragwort. See ragwort. Woolly rhinoceros, the tichorhine rhinoceros, Rhinoceros tich or hin us. This is the best-known fo il rhinoceros, and the one whose remains, like those of the woolly elephant, have been found in Siberia, embedded in ice. The species was two-horned, with the anterior horn of great size, and had a coat of pelage; it was widely distributed in northerly latitudes of Europe and Asia, and existed from the Miocene period. - Woolly root-louse. See woolly aphis and woolly louse (above), and Schizoneura,