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Entry 8 senses · 5 variants Webster, 1913

Wood

/(wo͝od)/ · IPA /wʊd/
01 a. Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
  1. 1.
    Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.[Obs.]
    “Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.” — Chaucer.
02 v. i. To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
  1. 1.
    To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
03 n. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
  1. 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.” — Shak.
  2. 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.
  3. 3.
    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.)
  4. 4.
    Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
    “We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering.” — Neh. x. 34.
04 v. t. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
imp. & p. p. Wooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wooding
  1. 1.
    To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
05 v. i. To take or get a supply of wood.
  1. 1.
    To take or get a supply of wood.