woodtin (wudtin)

A nodular variety of ca iterite, or tin-stone, of a brownish color and fibrous structure, and somewhat resembling dry wood in appearance. wood topper (wud'top"ér), n. Same as wood tapper. ward-ship), n. [ a Chain-fern (Woodward i a Virginica ). a, pinnule, showing the fruit dots (sori). Also Mr. Hunger ford has engro ed the above spoils and 60 more trees at 4/- by connivance of Mr. Inkpen, who sold him the woodward ship of that manor for 33/4. Darrell Papers (H. Hall's Society in Elizabeth an Age, [App., ii.). a faun or satyr, Wodwos , that woned in the knarrez (rocks). Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 721. In he schokkes his schelde, schountes he no lengare; Bot alles unwyse wodewyse he wente at the gayneste. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3818. Some like brute beasts grazed upon the ground, some went naked, some roamed like woodwoses . Sir T. Wilson (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 464). wood-wren (wud'ren), n . 1. Either one of two small woodland birds of Europe, belonging to the subfamily Sylviinæ . (a) The willow-warbler or willow-wren, Phyllos cop us trochilus . (b) The true wood warbler, or yellow willow-wren, Phyllos cop us sibilatriz: IMG:content-2543.jpg:[graphic] Yellow Wood-wren (Phyllos cop us sibilatrix). the preferable use of the name. The two species, though quite distinct, are much alike and often confounded. Neither is a wren in a proper sense. 21. A supposed species of true wren, described by Audubon in 1834 as Troglodytes american us, but not different from the common house-wren of the United States.