In packing butter in wooden vessels we must guard against "woody taste," and there is but one way to do this, that is, to soak the packages from 24 to 48 hours in strong brine and then thoroughly scald them out.
A capital way to prevent woody taste, is to line the package with parchment paper, which not only prevents the butter from taking on a woody flavor, but also prevents soakage and excludes the air.
D'Urville stood off to sea for the night, and next morning passed close to some low woody islets (Montemont) enclosed by a reef stretching to the eastward, and supporting upon it many scattered islands covered with verdure.
The low woody portion of this island is strewed with flat blocks of the same kind of recent coral conglomerate that occurs in situ on the beach, also with quantities of pumice twelve feet above high-water mark of spring tides.
After death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes the moonlight fearful.
But it has smaller, thicker leaves, the hairs are branched, and it is more woody below, with shorter flowering branches.
These are hollow cylinders of woody basket-work, which are quite symmetrical and pretty.
Herbaceous, having the character of an herb; notwoody or shrubby.
Woody at base, with long, slender branches, which climb over other shrubs.
We once saw, in an ideal Japanese villa among the redwoods, a rustic arbor over which had been trained the rough, woodystems of one of these nightshades.
Three to eighteen inches high; branching from a woody base.
The stems are woody and very leafy, and the plants are usually covered all over the top with the showy flower-heads.
The root is woody and astringent, to which latter fact the plant owes its English name, which it shares with the other members of the genus.
Woody at base; two to eight feet high; erect or decumbent.
The tree-poppy is the only truly woody plant in the poppy family.
In spring the long, coarse, sparsely leafy branches begin to rise from the woody base, often making the slopes silvery; and by May these have fully developed their loose, narrow panicles of pale flowers and yellowish buds.
And the delighted Arjuna of fierce energy and high soul then devoted himself to rigid austerities in that delightful and woody region.
And, O son of Kunti, in that spot is the tirtha called Asoka abounding in woody retreats of ascetics.
Repairing then, O virtuous one, to thewoody seat of ascetics that is called Adhivanga, one obtains, without doubt, great happiness amongst the Guhyakas.
Passing over those difficult and woody regions at the foot of the great mountains, Arjuna soon reached the breast of the Himavat; and staying there for sometime began to shine in his brilliancy.
And, O best of men, although the Danavas behaved in this way towards the ascetics in woody retreats, yet men failed to discover anything of them.
Then, O king, it is said that in the region on the north of the Praveni, and about the sacred asylum of Kanwa, are many woodyretreats of ascetics.
It is for this that we are wandering miserably over different woody regions abounding with discomfort.
And during the darkness of the night those angry Daityas began to devour the Munis they found in woody retreats and sacred spots.
The brake whose woody stems have held its ternate, palm-like fronds bravely aloft all summer is now a sallow yellow, and the lovely Osmundas and stately Struthiopteris are bowing their heads in brown acquiescence with the inevitable.
It was as if the slight readjustment of the woody fibre gave me a faint thrumming sound, a tiny music of motion that was a delight to the ear after the beat and bellow of the gale beyond.
Next to the tender ferns it is the woody undergrowth that recognizes the season first.
We urged the men to take to their oars with spirit, and held our course due east down by the woody shores of this immense island; among fields of reeds and rushes, and almost under the shadow of the towering forests.
But no sooner did the keel of our canoe touch the woody shore than we were enveloped in a cloud of mosquitoes.
On the east there is a precipitous descent into a wild, woody ravine, along the bottom of which winds a gentle stream, till it steals into the lake: this stream is in winter a raging torrent.
Nor did king Neptune keep a vain watch; for he sat aloft upon the highest summit of the woody Thracian Samos, admiring the war and the battle.
And my mother, who ruled in woody Hypoplacus, after that he had led her hither with other treasures, he sent back at liberty, having received countless ransom-gifts.
Whenever the great stalks of these cacti die, the succulent portion is dried, and nothing is left but the woody fiber.
Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp.
THEIR WOODY KIND, the wood-born creatures of their own kind, e.
Helena watched him out of the corner of her eyes, saw the girl's eager greeting, and the disappearance of the two in the woody walk that bordered the lawn.
Over the wide valley below her, with its woody hills and silver river, floated great cloud-shadows, chasing and chased by the sun.
The woodyhollow of Cowan's Bridge was foggy, unwholesome, damp.
I am fixed in a little town retired by the seashore, embowered in woody hills that rise round me, huge, rocky, and capped with clouds.
Some will need it twice, some once a week, and some in two weeks, according to their shrubby and woody nature.
Many of the forms which appear on the trunks of dead or living trees are plants of tough or woody consistency.
The fungus continued to grow, but its substance being hard and woody it cannot turn as the mushroom can.
The substance of the plant is quitewoody and tough when mature.
Wash and dry the mushrooms; cut them into strips crosswise of the gills, trimming off all the woody portion near the stem side.
Plants= corky orwoody (placed by some in Polyporaceæ).
The plants vary widely in form and consistency, some being very soft and soon decaying, others turning into an inky fluid, others being tough and leathery, and some more or less woody or corky.
This plant is also one of the very common woody Polyporaceæ.
The root is thick andwoody and the capsule is egg-shaped and ribbed, with no stem.
Having crossed over to a woodyisland some distance from the shore, the party sat down to a repast, when large bowls of pomba were served out.
Though at first swampy, it became woodyand well-watered, in many parts densely inhabited, with numerous villages, where even the Mahommedans have penetrated.
On the 24th, as he was approaching a more woody district than he had hitherto passed, a richly-dressed person rode up to him and gave him the sad intelligence of the death of Mr Richardson at Kukawa.
It is a general rule that the amount of woody substance annually formed on the same soil does not vary in any great degree with the different kinds of trees.
If we plant on the same ground an Oak tree, we will get small volume of wood, but the weight of the woody substance will be the same, that is, 2,200 pounds of absolutely dried wood per acre.
The fruit is a pear-shaped woody capsule, and contains many winged seeds.
Because the bark serves to protect the woody structure, and also to give a passage to the descending sap which flows abundantly in the spring, and out of which the woody fibre is formed.
The gastric juice can dissolve any other part of the plant, even the woody fibre, and yet upon the seed it takes no effect.
Why, if we cut through a cabbage stump, do we find an outer coat of woody fibre, and an inner substance of cellular matter?
The woody fibre of plants is analogous to the bony structure of animal bodies.
Because thewoody fibre forms a kind of skeleton, which supports the internal stricture of the plant, and gives form and character to its organisation.
Because the woody texture of this tree (Wellingtonea gigantea) is exceedingly light and porous.
Because it is by the leaves that the secretion is formed which supplies the woody fibre.
Because, having no woody stalks of their own to support them, they require to take hold of surrounding objects, and raise themselves from the ground by climbing.
Because the bean has in its stalk sufficient woodyfibre to support itself, but the pea has not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woody" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bushy; forest; forested; leafy; scrubby; sylvan; timbered; wooded; woodland; woodsy; woody
