Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Woo

Woo , transitive verb

[Old English wowen, wo{not transcribed}en, Anglo-Saxon w{not transcribed}gian, from w{not transcribed}h bent, crooked, bad; akin to Old Saxon wāh evil, Gothic unwahs blameless, Sanskrit va{not transcribed}c to waver, and perhaps to English vaccilate.]

1.
To solicit in love; to court.
Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought. — Prior
2.
To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song. — Milton
I woo the wind That still delays his coming. — Bryant

Woo , intransitive verb

To court; to make love. — Dryden