occasions they go against the wind to prevent the dogs smelling them. The female is also said to produce one the first year, two the second, and so on to the ninth, and that she nourishes her offspring only if they suck water as swine, or bite like bears.

The Scriptures notice some remarkable characteristics of the wolf, namely, that it lives upon rapine-that it is violent, cruel, and bloody that it is voracious and greedy -that it prowls about by night seeking its prey and that it is the great enemy of sheep. In the spirit of these intimations are all the figurative allusions to the wolf. False teachers are wolves in sheep's clothing, and the persecutors of the Church are ravenous wolves. The greatest happiness, peace, and security, are indicated by the Prophet Isaiah in the latter days, when the "wolf shall dwell with the lamb."

WOOD, a general term for trees, as in the prohibition of idolatry, Deut. iv. 28, "Ye shall not serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone."

WOOL is the soft hair or down, particularly of sheep, goats, and other animals, the practical purposes of which are well known.

It is occasionally mentioned in the Scriptures, by way of contrast, as remarkable for its whiteness, and white wool is specified by Ezekiel in his account of the trade of Tyre (xxvii. 18). Bochart argues that wool of a bright purple colour, from the Arabic use of it, is indicated, while the Septuagint renders it wool from Miletus, a place famous for that commodity. Virgil informs us that wool was dyed purple at Tyre. Angora, the ancient Ancyra, and the former seat of arts and manufactures, still retains its breed of fine-woolled animals, among which the goat produces a fleece nearly equal to silk in lustre and beauty. Damascus and some other ancient cities of Asia Minor preserve in their respective vicinities the traces of the former cultivation of fine-woolled animals. Sheep's wool is generally admitted to be the product of cultivation, at least no wild animal is known which resembles the wool-bearing sheep; and this wool is only found in those countries which have been or are the seats of the arts, and where civilization has long prevailed. The fine-woolled sheep, so greatly valued by the Greeks and Romans, were obtained from Asia Minor.