Helen Fenton

Wool: Definition and part of speech

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Wool

  1. n. A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
  2. n. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; — chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
  3. n. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Woody: Definition and part of speech

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Woody

  1. a. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
  2. a. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
  3. a. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Woof: Definition and part of speech

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Woof

  1. n. Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.
  2. n. The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.