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  • n  the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
  • n  the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
  • n  United States film actress (1938-1981)
  • n  English conductor (1869-1944)
  • n  English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
  • n  United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
  • n  any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
  • n  a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head
    metal woods are now standard

  • There was a time in the mid-'70s when wood-stove bores were a serious environmental hazard at parties, the way bullfight bores had been three decades before, sports-car bores were .
  • News that motor trucks can now be made to run on kindling wood instead of gasoline reached Joseph Stalin some time ago, fired the Dictator's keen brain.
  • What had happened was a sudden, general substitution of wood alcohol for pure alcohol.
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