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• Wood mouse — Conservation status Least Concern …   Wikipedia

• Shaw Bridge — View from south end, 2008 Carries Van Wyck Lane Crosses Claverack Creek …   Wikipedia

• Shaw (name) — Shaw is most commonly a surname and rarely a given name.*Clan Shaw an ancient Scottish clan, part of the Chattan Confederation and formerly a sept of Clan MacKintosh::The Clan Shaw motto is: Fide et fortitude. meaning For fidelity and fortitude.… …   Wikipedia

• shaw — /shaw/, n. 1. Midland U.S. a small wood or thicket. 2. Scot. the stalks and leaves of potatoes, turnips, and other cultivated root plants. [bef. 900; ME shawe, OE sceaga, scaga; akin to SHAG1] * * * (as used in expressions) Billings John Shaw… …   Universalium

• Shaw brothers — Les studios Shaw Brothers Shaw Brothers (邵氏片場) est une société hongkongaise spécialisée dans la production et dans la distribution de films de cinéma. Sommaire 1 …   Wikipédia en Français

• Shaw — (sh[add]), n. [OE. schawe, scha[yogh]e, thicket, grove, AS. scaga; akin to Dan. skov, Sw. skog, Icel. sk[=o]gr.] 1. A thicket; a small wood or grove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns. [1913 Webster] Gaillard he was as goldfinch in the shaw.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Shaw|nee|wood — «sh NEE WUD», noun. = western catalpa. (Cf. ↑western catalpa) …   Useful english dictionary

• Wood Village — ist eine Stadt im Multnomah County im US Bundesstaat Oregon. Laut Volkszählung im Jahr 2000 hatte sie eine Einwohnerzahl von 2.860 auf einer Fläche von 2,5 km².[1] Trotz des Namens ist Wood Village als Stadt klassifiziert. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• shaw — (n.) strip of wood forming the border of a field, 1570s, from O.E. sceaga copse, cognate with N.Fris. skage farthest edge of cultivated land, O.N. skage promontory, and perhaps to O.E. sceaga rough matted hair (see SHAG (Cf. shag) (n.)). The Old… …   Etymology dictionary

• Shaw — m 1 Scottish: Anglicized form of SEAGHDH (SEE Seaghdh). 2 English: transferred use of the surname, which originated as a local name meaning ‘wood, copse’ (Old English sceaga, Old Norse skógr) …   First names dictionary