Wood
Wood (wod) , adjective
[Old English wod, Anglo-Saxon wōd; akin to Old High German wuot, Icelandic ōer, Gothic wōds, Dutch woede madness, German wuth, wut, also to Anglo-Saxon wōe song, Icelandic ōer, Latin vates a seer, a poet. Compare Wednesday.]
Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obsolete]
Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.
Wood , intransitive verb
To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. — Chaucer
Wood , noun
[Old English wode, wude, Anglo-Saxon wudu, wiodu; akin to Old High German witu, Icelandic vi{not transcribed}r, Danish & Swedish ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, Welsh gwydd trees, shrubs.]
1.
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.
2.
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.
To worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.
3.
(Botany) 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.
Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch.
4.
Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
We cast the lots... for the wood offering.
Wood , transitive verb
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
Wood , intransitive verb
To take or get a supply of wood.