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woodspite
woodspite Now dial. (ˈwʊdspaɪt) Also 6 -specht, 7 -speight, -spight. [f. wood n.1 + speight.] A woodpecker; esp. the Green Woodpecker, Gecinus viridis.1555 Gesner Hist. Anim. iii. Avium 680 Primum pici genus Angli spechtam & wodspechtam..nominant. 1601 Holland Pliny xxvii. x. II. 282 The roots must ...
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woodspeck
woodspeck dial. (ˈwʊdspɛk) Also 6 -spike, 9 -spack. [See wood n.1 and speck n.3 Cf. woodspite.] A woodpecker.15.. Woodspecke [see speck n.3]. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 25 Euery suche leafe or pricke [of Juniper] is very like vnto y⊇ ende of the tonge of an hueholl or wodspike. 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. ...
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woodpecker
woodpecker (ˈwʊdˌpɛkə(r)) Also 7 -picker. [f. wood n.1 + peck v.1 + -er1. (Cf. the Gr. names δρυ(ο)κολάπτης, δρυοκόλαψ, δρυοκόπος, f. δρῦς tree + κολάπτειν to peck, κοπ- to strike.)] 1. a. A bird of the family Picidæ, esp. of the sub-family Picinæ, comprising very numerous genera and species found i...
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woodwall
woodwall Now dial. (ˈwʊdwɒl) Forms: 3 wude-, 3–5 wodewale, 5 -woll, wodwale, 6 wode-, woodw(h)ale, -waule, -weele, 7 -wal, woodhall, 6– woodwall. See also Eng. Dial. Dict. [ME. wodewale, ad. or cogn. w. MLG. wedewale (early Flem. widewael ‘oriolus’) f. wede wood n.1 + *wale of obscure origin. (Cf. w...
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hickwall
hickwall local. (ˈhɪkwəl) Forms: α. 5 hyghwhele, 6 highwale, hucholl, hewhall, 6–7 hewel(l, 7– hew-hole. β. 7 highaw(e, heighaw, heyhoe, hiho, 7–8 high-hoe, 9 haihow; 9 heighhold. (Cf. high-hole, hecco.) γ. 6 hechewall, 6– hickwall; also 6 hicwaw, 7 hicway, 7–8 hickway. (Cf. witwall.) δ. 9 hickle, h...
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site
▪ I. † site, n.1 Obs. Forms: 3–5 sit, 4 site, sijt, syt, siht, 4–6 syte, 5 sitt, syte, cytte. [a. ON. *s{yacu}t (cf. Norw. syt), variant (properly the original nom. sing.) of s{uacu}t (Norw. sut) sorrow, distress. Cf. site v.1] 1. Care or sorrow; grief, trouble of any kind. Common in northern ME. po...
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