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woof

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1. woof - Noun

2. woof - Verb

3. woof - Interjection

Meaning

The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. Muhammad Iqbal

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. Frank Lloyd Wright

Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell. Coventry Patmore

You could have said ‘Excuse me.' (Zarek) I'm not talking to you. (Astrid) Love you, too, babe. (Zarek) You really are an animal, aren't you? (Astrid) Woof, woof. (Zarek) Sherrilyn Kenyon

Though a crucified life or an agonized death, Though long, or quick and sharp, I am firmly wrought in the endless thread Of Destiny's woof and warp. And I do not shrink, though a wave of pain Sobs over me now and then, As I think of those "saddest of all sad words," The pitiful "might have been." Voltairine de Cleyre

The mind perceives ... that it is higher than institutions, which are but the woof and web of its thought and will, which it weaves and outgrows, and weaves again. John Lancaster Spalding

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