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whitewood(dictionary)

pie(1) (iou) and whitewood (iou)


pie(1) (iou)



pie noun1. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin pica magpie, rel. to picus green woodpecker. See also MAGPIE.]
a. The magpie. Now rare. ME.
b. With specifying word: any of various Other birds resembling the magpie, esp. in having black and white (pied) plumage. L19.
SEA-pie. tree pie: see TREE noun.
transf.
a. A cunning or wily person. LME-L16.
b. A chattering or saucy person. M16.

whitewood (iou)



whitewood noun. L17.
[from WHITE adjective + WOOD noun1.]
Any of various trees with white or light-coloured wood; esp. (a) N. Amer. the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera; the basswood, Tilia americana; (b) Austral. a small tree of arid regions, Atalaya hemiglauca (family Sapindaceae), with grey-green foliage valuable as fodder. Also whitewood tree. L17.
Any light-coloured wood, esp. as not (yet) stained or varnished; spec. wood of the Norway spruce, Picea abies, imported from Continental Europe, or (more fully American whitewood) that of the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera. E18.