When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on
it.
Collier.
His singing was, I confess, a little wooden.
G. MacDonald.
Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime
who takes a university degree, — denoting one who is only fit to stay
at home and stir porridge. "We submit that a wooden spoon of our day
would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because
they never heard of the differential calculus." Macaulay. (b) In some
American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes,
one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship.
Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a
wooden spoon with formal ceremonies. — Wooden ware, a general name for
buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood. —
Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.
Wood"en*ly (?), adv. Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.
Wood"en*ness, n. Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity;
blockishness.
We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German
philology.
Sweet.
{ Wood"hack` (?), Wood"hack`er (?), } n. (Zoöl.) The yaffle. [Prov.
Eng.]
Wood"hew`er (?), n. (Zoöl.) A woodpecker.
Wood"hole` (?), n. A place where wood is stored.
Wood"house` (?), n. A house or shed in which wood is stored, and
sheltered from the weather.
Wood"i*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being woody. Evelyn.
Wood"knack`er (?), n. (Zoöl.) The yaffle.
Wood"land (?), n. Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on
which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water
seem to strive again.
Pope.
Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.
Bancroft.
Wood"land (?), a. Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the
forest; sylvan.
She had a rustic, woodland air.
Wordsworth.
Like summer breeze by woodland stream.
Keble.
Woodland caribou. (Zoöl.) See under Caribou.
Wood"land*er (?), n. A dweller in a woodland.
Wood"-lay`er (?), n. (Bot.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid
down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
Wood"less, a. Having no wood; destitute of wood. Mitford. —
Wood"less*ness, n.
Wood"ly, adv. In a wood, mad, or raving manner; madly; furiously.
[Obs.] Chaucer.