n. The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of a lady. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). [ 1913 Webster ]

Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A South African evergreen having hard tough wood.
Syn. -- lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) See Letterwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (Brosimum Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The American hop hornbeam (Ostrya Virginica), a small tree with very tough wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The blood necessary to life; vital blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: That which gives strength and energy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Money [ is ] the lifeblood of the nation. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Likelihood. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Likely + -hood. ] 1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What of his heart perceive you in his face
By any likelihood he showed to-day ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Likeness; resemblance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Statistical probability; probability of being true or of occurring in the future; as, the likelihood of being abducted by aliens is close to zero.. [ PJC ]

pos>n. Amboyna wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being a lion. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. livelode, liflode, prop., course of life, life's support, maintenance, fr. AS. līf life + lād road, way, maintenance. Confused with livelihood liveliness. See Life, and Lode. ] Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; the means for support of life; maintenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lively + -hood. ] Liveliness; appearance of life. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ So called from being imported in logs. ] The heartwood of a tree (Hæmatoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called hæmatoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A lowly state. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lusty + -hood. ] State of being lusty; vigor of body. “ Full of lustihood.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]