n. pl. [ Back, a. + woods. ] The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Backwoodsmen A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the United States in former times. Fisher Ames. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Blood + shed ] The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Bloodshed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Blood + shot, p. p. of shoot to variegate. ] Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. [ 1913 Webster ]

His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. stained with blood; as, a bloodstained shirt; a bloodstained carpet; a bloodstained sidewalk. [ PJC ]

n. (Far.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. thoroughbred horses (collectively). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Min.) (a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope. (b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. coup de sang. ] Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. drawing blood from the body of another; as, a plague of bloodsucking insects. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; -- of plants or persons; as, a bloodsucking blackmailer; bloodsucking lawyers.
Syn. -- parasitic, parasitical, leechlike. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

(Polit. Econ.) Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. pl. [ OF. emmeroides. See Hemorrhoids. ] Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [ R. ] Deut. xxviii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Emerods. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ God, n. + -ship. ] The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gossip. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. godsunu. ] A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, “God speed you.” [ Written also as two separate words. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Good, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Favor; grace. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large grayish-brown edible fungus (Polyporus frondosus) forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees that somewhat resembles a hen.
Syn. -- hen of the woods, Polyporus frondosus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ . A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases. “Ods bodikin.” “Ods pity.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An edible mild-tasting mushroom (Strobilomyces floccopus) found in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America.
Syn. -- old man of the woods, Strobilomyces floccopus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Polit. Econ.) Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Rodsmen One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Scots Law) Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements of husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Acoustics) Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Woodsmen A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A striped variety of hornstone, resembling wood in appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the woods or forest. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ sugar making ] is woodsy, and savors of trees. J. Burroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]