Wood /(wo͝od)/
Wood
a.
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Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.]
Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.
Wood
v. i.
- To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
Wood
n.
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A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.
- The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
- The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. (Bot.)
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Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering.
Wood
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Wooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wooding
- To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
Wood
v. i.
- To take or get a supply of wood.