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woodcock
Any of five species (family Scolopacidae) of plump, sharp-billed migratory birds of damp, dense woodlands in N. America, Europe, and Asia. With eyes set far back on the head, a woodcock has a 360° field of vision. The buffy-brown, mottled plumage provides camouflage. A solitary bird, most active at dusk, it drums its feet to coax earthworms to the surface and then extracts them with its long, forceps-like bil1; it may eat twice its weight in worms each day. The female Amer. woodcock (Scolopax, or Philohela, minor) is about 11 in. (28 cm) long; the male is slightly smaller. The male's striking courtship display includes a long, repeated spiraling and dropping sequence. Woodcocks have been popular game birds.
woodcut
Design printed from a plank of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood's grain. One of the oldest methods of making prints, it was used in China to decorate textiles from the 5th cent. Printing from wood blocks on textiles was known in Europe from the early 14th cent., but developed little until paper began to be manufactured in France and Germany at the end of the 14th cent. In the early 15th cent., religious images and playing cards were first made from wood blocks. Black-line woodcut reached its greatest perfection in the 16th cent. with A. Dü rer and his followers. In the late 19th and early 20th cent., artists such as E. Munch, P. Gauguin, and the German Expressionists rediscovered the expressive potential of woodcuts. Woodcuts have played an important role in the history of Japanese art (see ukiyo-e).
Woodstock
Rock festival held near Bethel, N.Y. (its site was to have been the nearby town of Woodstock), on August 15-17, 1969. It attracted about 450,000 young rock fans, and featured such performers as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, J. Hendrix, the Who, and J. Joplin. The festival, whose participants exhibited extraordinary good feeling in the face of rain and organizational chaos, marked the high point of U.S. youth counterculture in the 1960s. It was documented in the film Woodstock (1970). It was revived with mixed success on its 25th and 30th anniversaries.
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