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Woolsey

Woolsey \Wool"sey\, n. [From Wool.] Linsey-woolsey.

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woolsey

n. linsey-woolsey

Gazetteer
Woolsey, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 175
Housing Units (2000): 62
Land area (2000): 0.819261 sq. miles (2.121875 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016046 sq. miles (0.041558 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.835307 sq. miles (2.163433 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84288
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.363354 N, 84.407942 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30214
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Woolsey

Woolsey may refer to:

In places:

  • Woolsey, Georgia, USA, a town
  • Woolsey Flat, California, USA, a former settlement

In people:

  • Calvin Woolsey, American physician and pianist
  • Gamel Woolsey, American author and poet
  • John M. Woolsey, American judge
  • Kit Woolsey, bridge expert
  • Lynn Woolsey, American politician
  • Melancthon Taylor Woolsey, United States Naval officer
  • R. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA under the Bill Clinton administration
  • Robert Woolsey, American film comedian
  • Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, American children's author
  • Ted Woolsey, American video game translator
  • Theodore Dwight Woolsey, past president of Yale University
    • Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, American legal scholar and son of the above
      • Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr., son of Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, grandson of Theodore Dwight Woolsey
  • Thomas Wolsey circa 1470-1530), English statesman and clergyman

In fictional characters:

  • Richard Woolsey, a character in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis

In other uses:

  • USS Woolsey, two ships in the United States Navy
  • Woolsey (convention), a Bridge convention

Usage examples of "woolsey".

I told Ryan about my conversation with Terry Woolsey, and about the meeting scheduled for the following morning.

When Woolsey looked up, two turquoise and silver earrings swayed with the movement.

A tall man in cornrows, gold chains, and overpriced designer sunglasses approached the door just as Woolsey started through it.

The man stepped back, allowed Woolsey to pass, slid the shades down his nose, and followed the progress of her buttocks.

I clicked my seat belt and braced against the dash as Woolsey made a U-ey and gunned it up Clarkson.

The wheels screeched softly as Woolsey whipped left onto Morehead, ignoring the sign prohibiting such a turn.

Without hesitating, Woolsey jackhammered into reverse, gunned backward, then forward, slamming the Chevrolet across the alley.

During the past week Slidell, Ryan, and Woolsey had filled me in on the missing pieces.

Steven, 264 Wood, Jack, 155 Woodward, Bob, 379-80 Woodward, Gilbert, 278 Woolsey, R.

John Woolsey brought the letter, and stayed until I read it, to see if anything was wanted.

There is no other treasure on that barren hill-top, for the Woolsey boys, to whom the old man deeded his mine, worked out the paying gravel long ago.

He began to plan a trip East in the coming summer, directed John Woolsey to inquire as to the expense of such a trip, and proposed to employ him as a traveling companion.

Fillmore Hill was drawn up, making the property over to the Woolsey brothers.

Out of rough planks, lying about to mend sluices, the Woolsey boys framed a coffin, for which they procured handles at a neighboring village.

Under these squamous palm trees Laurel kicked Hardy and Woolsey beat Wheeler upon the head with a codfish.