woo 
Go nu Berild swithe, 
And make him fiil blithe, 
And whan thu faret to woje, 
Tak him thine gloue. 
KiiUj Horn (E. E. T. S.X 1. 7»-i. 
When a woman woos, wliat woman's son 
Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed? 
Shak., Sonnets, xli. 
2. To ask; seek; solicit. 
I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more. 
Shak., iluch Ado, ii. 3. 50. 
WOO^ (w6), H. A Scotch form of woo!. 
WOO^t, ". and a. An old spelling of woe. 
WOOdi (wud), )). [< ME. ivode, wuiie, wod (pi. 
wodes, wudes), < AS. wiidu^ orig. widu, a wood, a 
tree, wood, timber, = MD. MLG. wede, a wood, 
wood. = OHG. witUj MHG. wiie, wood, = Icel. 
vitlir = Sw. Dan. ved, a tree, wood; akin to (ac- 
cording to some, derived from) the Celtic words 
Olr. fid, Ir. Jiodhj a wood, tree {Jiodais, shrub- 
beryj underwood), = Gael, fodh, a wilderness, 
wood, timber (Jiodhach, shrubs), = W. gwydd, 
trees {gwyddeU, bushes, brakes).] 1. A large 
and thick collection of growing trees ; a forest : 
often in the plural, with the same force as the 
singular. 
From Ebron Men gon to Bethelem in half a day; for 
it is but 5 Myle; and it is fuUe fayre Weye, be Pleynes 
and W'^des fulle deletable. Mandeville, Travels, p. 69. 
Light thickens, and the crow 
Makes wing to the rooky wood. 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. 51. 
There is a pleasure in tlie pathless woods. 
Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 178. 
2. The substance of trees; the hard fibrous 
substance which composes the body of a tree 
and its branches, and which lies between the 
pith and the bark, in dicotyledonousplantsthe wood 
is composed externally of the alburnum or sap-wood, and 
internally of the duramen or hard wood. In monocotyle- 
donous plants, or endogens, the hardest part of the wood 
is nearest the circumference, while the interior is com- 
posed of cellular tissue. 
3. Timber; the trunks or main stems of trees 
which attain such dimensions as to be fit for 
arciiiteotural and other purposes. In this sense 
the word implies not only standing trees suitable for 
buildings, etc., but also such trees cut into beams, rafters, 
boards, planks, etc. See timber'^. 
4. Firewood; cordwood. 
To-morrow morning bedding and a gown shall be sent 
in, and nnjod and coal. 
Dekker and Webater, Northward Ho, iv. 4. 
5. The cask, keg, or ban-el, as distinguished 
from the bottle : as, wine drawn from the wood. 
Ordinary clarets from the wood As. to 6*. per gallon; 
good buttled clai-ets from 8«. or 4«. to 10«. a bottle. 
Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 199. 
6. The grain of wood. 
Rightlie smo[o]thed and wrought as it should, not ouer- 
lt]whartlie, and against the wood. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 35. 
7. In Iter., three or four trees grouped together, 
usually represented as rooted in a mound, which 
is vert, unless otherwise blazoned. Also called 
hurst. — 8. In printing, a wood-block, or wood- 
blocks collectively, as distinguished from a me- 
tallic type or plate of any kind: as, cuts printed 
from the ^cood. — 9. In tnusic, the wooden wind- 
instruments of an orchestra taken collectively. 
See iciitd'^y ?;., 5, ivind-instrunient, and instru- 
ment, 3 (b). Also G'dWedwood wind. — lOf. Fig- 
uratively, a crowd, mass, or collection. 
And though my buckler bare a wood of darts. 
Yet left not I, but with audacious face 
I brauely fought. 
T. Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, v. 
Names of Tribulation, Persecution, 
Restraint, Long-patience, and such like, affected 
By the whole family or wood of you. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2. 
Wood is used to signify any miscellaneous collection, or 
stock of materials, hence some poets intitle their miscel- 
laneous works silvarum libri ; and our poet [Ben JonsonJ, 
conforming to this practice, calls his the Forest. 
Uptfjii, quoted in note to "Tlie Alchemist." 
Agal or agila wood. See ar/aliochum.— Agatlzed wood. 
See a<j(fUzp and dlidfij. - Aloes wood. See a'jallochnm.— 
Amboyna wood. ste/.7'('""'crf-»Y)rtfL— Artificial wood, 
a compo-iliuii made of pajier, p;ipcr-pulp, glue, sawdust, 
hemp, albumen, metallic oxids, drying-oils, sulphur, caout- 
chouc gutta-percha, mineral salts, etc. When warm or 
wet, according to the nature of the particular composi- 
tion, it is plastic, but in cooling or drying it hardens and 
acquires properties similur to tliose of wood.— Brauna 
wood. H;e ^auna.— Brazil wood, braziletto wood. 
See in-azil, brazdetto. — Cg^stOT wood, a name of Magno- 
lia f/lauca. - Caviuna wood, a i»alisander wood obtained 
in Brazil from Dalberf/ia ■m'gra and pcrliaps some other 
trees —Champ wood, the wood of the cliamp and the 
chaiiiprik.— Cock Of the woods, flu- ciip.Tcaillie (which 
see, uitii cut).— Commissioners of Woods and For- 
ests, a department of the Ilritisb (Jovernment, called 
more fully the lioard of fonniiissi'.ners of Woods, For- 
e'ifs, Land-revenues, Works, an<l Buildings, established by 
2 and li Wm. IV., c. 1, By U and 15 Vict., c. i'A it is df- 
6964 
vlded into a Board of Commissioners of Woods, Forests, 
and Land revenues, and a Board of Commissioners of 
Works and Tublic Buildings. The former have the man- 
agement of the crown woods and forests, and land-reve- 
nues; the latter have themanagementof the public works 
and buildings, to which has been added, by later acts, the 
care of the royal pai-ks, etc. Encyc. i>ic(.— Coromandel 
wood. Same as calamander-wood.— Cuba. WOOd. Same 
as /us^'c— Curana wood, the wood of Jcica altissima. 
See Jcica.— Tea.8t Of wood-carrying, one of the annual 
festivals of the ancient Jews, instituted after the Babylon- 
ish captivity. It obtained its name from the practice of 
the people's bringing wood to the temple on the day of 
its celel)ration for the burning of the sacrifices.— Fossil 
wood, (a) Wood in a fossil state ~ that is, wood in a state of 
nature that has undergone various preservative processes 
and has become fossil. Popularly the term is usually ap- 
plied to silicifled wood — that is, wood in which the sub- 
stance has been replaced, atom by atom, by silica in such a 
manner as to retain the exact form and appearance of the 
original wood. Wood preserved in this manner is exceed- 
ingly abundant in various parts of the western United 
States, especially in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyo- 
ming, where it is not rare to find trunks aO feet in height, 
and 8 or 10 feet in diameter, standing upright exactly in 
the positions in which they grew, and so perfectly pre- 
served that every cell, with all its delicate markings, can 
be as satisfactorily examined as from a living tree. In 
central Arizona perfectly silicifled trunks of trees, 8 feet 
in diameter and 140 feet long, have been observed. These 
latter belong to the genus Araucarioxylon, the representa- 
tive in a fossil state of the genus A raacaria. Fossil wood 
may also be due to the molecules being displaced by lime 
or iron, or by various combinations of minerals. Lignite, 
which represents one of the stages in the formation of 
coal, is very frequently fossil wood which has lost more or 
less of its volatile constituents, but still retains its wood- 
like structure and appearance. The term fvsgil ivood is 
therefore properly applied to any wood that is so situated 
in the earth, or has been so acted upon by various miner- 
als, as to be permanently preserved. (6) See fossil cork, 
under fossil. — Hard wood, the wood of various trees, 
such as oak, cherry, maple, ebony, ironwood, etc., so called 
from these woods being relatively very hard, firm, and 
compact. The quality results from the cells having ex- 
ceedingly thick walls and being very compactly arranged, 
with very few or no intercellular spaces or ducts. Trees fur- 
nishing wood of this character are usually of slow growth, 
with narrow annual rings and dense, solid heart-wood. 
Mahogany, rosewood, and most woods susceptible of a fine 
polish belong to this class.— Hypemic WOOd. See hy- 
pernic. — Incense wood- See ince}ise-tree.— Ja.caTaJl- 
da wood. See palisander.— Jaxool, Jarrah, kamassl 
wood. Heejarool, etc.~Jasperized wood. Sameas«(7i- 
cified wood. — Kanyin wood. Same as iinrjuii wood. See 
gurjun. -Karri wood, tlie timber of Kucalypius diversi- 
color^of southwestern Australia. The tree is said to attain 
exceptionally the height of 400 feet. The timber is useful 
for ship-plaTiking, masts, wheel-work, railway-ties, etc. — 
Kliow wood. See O^ert.— Lemon wood, (a) The wood 
of the lemon-tree, which is hard, elastic, and fragrant. 
(b) In South Africa, an evergreen shrub, or a tree 20 or 30 
feet high, Psychotria Capensif {Grumilm cymosa), having 
a hard, tough wood, variously useful.— Lingoa WOOd. 
Same as linyo'^.-hohlolly WOOd. See loblolly tree.— 
Metallization of wood. See rnetallization.— molded. 
wood. See?HoW4._Molompi,mora,myallwood. See 
molowpi, etc.— Myrtle wood, the wood of the Tasmar 
nian beech. See i^rtj/«5.— Nephritic WOOd. See iieph- 
n7j.'c.— Nicaragua wood, a dye-wood exported from 
Nicaragua, similar to brazil wood, and derived from the 
same or another species of desalpinia; peach-wood. — 
Padoilk wood, the Andaman redwood. See redicood, 2. 
— Pernambuco wood, true brazil wood.-Perpignan 
wood, the wood of the European nettle-tree, Celtis mis- 
trails. See nettle-tree, 1.— Petrified wood. Same as sili- 
cified wood. — Picrsena wood, the wood of Picrxna ex- 
celsa. See quassia, 2.— Quassia, quebracho, saj wood. 
See quassia, etc. — Samaria wood. Same as ciirana wood. 
— Sand wood, a leguminous shrub of the Isle of Re- 
union, doubtfully classed as Bremodiera Am nioxylon.^ 
Santa Martha wood. Same as ?>eftc/i-«oorf.— Secon- 
dary, speckled, sterile wood. See the adjectives.— 
Silicifled wood. See fossil wood, above, and silicify. — 
Soft wood, a wood, such as basswood, poplar, tulip, 
cedar, and white pine, which is relatively soft and easily 
worked. This character is due to the large and thin- 
walled cells, including usually numerous ducts. Soft- 
wooded trees are generally of rapid growth, making thick 
annual layers.— Tonka-bean wood. Same as scent-wood. 
— Trincomali wood. See hrtlmalillp.-TuTSinirsL wood, 
the wood of the bastard bully-tree, Bvmelia retusa, of the 
West Indies. — Wood-bending machine, a machine or 
an apparatus for bending wood into shape. Different ma- 
chines are used, according to the purpose for which the 
wood is to be used, as for ship-timbers, furniture, sleigh- 
runners, hoops, and staves. — Wood moot or mote. 
See moo(i. — Wood reed-grass. See refd-grass.— Wood 
stop, in organ-buildinff . a stop the pipes of which are 
made of wood, as the flute, the stopped diapason, etc.— 
Wood tea. See ^eai.— Wood wind. See def. 9. above. 
(For a multitude of other woods, see specific epithets.) 
= Syn. 1. Woods, Park, etc. ^ec forest. 
WOOd^ (wild), r. [<u-ood^,n.'] I. trans. To sup- 
ply or replenish with wood; jjet supplies of 
wood for: as, to n:ood a steamboat or a loco- 
motive. [Colloq.] 
Many passengers would save a little by helping to "xvood 
the boat": i. e.. by carrying wood down the bank and 
throwhip it on the boat, a special ticket being issued on 
that condition. The Century, XLI. 106. 
II. in trans. To take in or get supplies of 
wood. 
In this little [island] of Mevis, more than twenty yeares 
ngoe, I have remained a good time together, to wod and 
water and refresh my men. 
(Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 277. 
Thertrfore, as soon as we came to an Anchor at the Kast 
end of the Island, we sent our Boat ashore to the Cover- 
woodbine 
nour, to desire leare to wood, water, and cut a new >!lzen- 
yard. Dampier, Voyages, IL L 174. 
WOOd^t (wod), a. [Sc. tcod, wud ; < ME. wood, 
iroodey wod, wode, < AS. wod, mad, raging, furi- 
ous, = Icel. odhr, raging, frantic, = Gotb. wOds, 
mad; cf. MD. woed^ woede, D. woede, OHG. icuot, 
MHG. G. wnt, wuth, madness; AS. wod, voice, 
song,= Icel. odhr, song, poetry, mind, wit; prob. 
allied to L. rates, a prophet, bard (one filled 
with "a fine frenzy"): ^^g vatic. See Woden, 
Wednesday. '\ Mad; frantic; furions; angry; 
enraged; raging. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. or 
Scotch.] 
Ffuerse Ector was fayn of his fyn helpe, 
And as loode as a wild bore wan on his horse. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6523. 
Now a Monday next, at quarter nyght, 
3hal falle a reyn, and that so wilde and wood 
That half so gieet was nevere Noees flood. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 331. 
Howard was as wode as a wilde bullok ; God sende hym 
seche wurshipp as he deservith. Paston Letters, 1. 341. 
Quyriache tlscariot] 8ayd,Thou wood hounde [mad dog, 
margin] thou hist doon to me grete prouffyte [profit]. 
Ashtmi's Legendary Hist, of the Cross (reprinted from orig. 
{ed. of Nov. 20, 1483), London, 1887, p. xxxvi. 
Franticke companion, lunatlcke and tcood. 
Greene, Orlando Furioso, 1. 984. 
For WOOdt, like anything mad ; "like mad." 
Yit lat us to the peple seme . . . 
That wimmen loves us /or wood. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, L 1747. 
WOOd^t (wod), V. i. [< ME. wooden, wodien ; 
fromtheadj. Ci.xceed^.^ 1. To act like a mad- 
man; rave. 
He stareth and woodeth in his advertence. 
Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 467. 
2. To be fierce or furious ; rage. 
Thogh they ne anoye nat the body, yit vices teooden to 
destroyen men by wounde of thowht. 
Chattcer, Boethius, iv. meter 3. 
WOOd^t, n. An old spelling of woad. Prompt. 
Parr. 
WOOd-acid (wud'as'''id), ?i. Same as wood-vine- 
gar. See vinegar. 
Take 20 pounds terra japonica, 5 jmunds of wood-add, 
... to about 10 barrels of water, or enough of the latter 
to cover the hides. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 607. 
wood-agate (wud'ag'^at), n. An agate which 
shows more or less perfectly the structure of 
the wood from which it has been derived by a 
process of silicification. 
wood-alcohol (wud'al*k5-hol), n. See alcohol, 
wood-almond (wud'a''''mond), n. A shrub, Hip- 
pocratea comosa. See Hippocratea. 
wood-anemone (wud'a-nem''o-ne), H. The 
wind-flower, Anemone nemorosa, 
wood-ant (wiid'ant), n. 1. A large ant, as For- 
mica rufa, Avhich lives in the woods, — 2. A 
white ant, or termite, as Termes Jlaripcs, which 
lives in the w^ood of old buildings. See cut 
under Termes. [U. S.] 
wood-apple (wud'ap"!), n. See Feronia^ 1. 
wood-asnes (wud'ash'''^ez), n. pi. The remains 
of burned wood or plants. 
wood-awl (wud'al), n. The green woodpecker, 
or awl-bird, (iecinns riridis: same as woodwale. 
See cut uuder popiiijai/. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
wood-baboon (wud'ba-bon''0, »• The drill ; the 
cinereous or yellow baboon of Guinea, Cynoce- 
phalus leucophieus. See drillK 
wood-barley (wiid'bar'li), n. See Bordeum. 
wood-beetle (wud'be'''tl), n. See Paussidse, 
WOOd-betony (wud'bet"o-ni), n. See hetony. 
Also called hcad-betony and iousewort. 
wood-bill (wiid'bil), n. In her., a bearing rep- 
resenting a woodmen's bill for lopping fagots, 
etc. 
woodbine, woodbind (wud 'bin, -bind), n. [Ear- 
ly mod. E. wodbynde; < ME. woodbynde, woode- 
bynde, icodebinde, wodebynde, wudehind€,i AS. 
wudifbind, wudebinde, earlier tiuidnbindc, iinidii- 
bindac. nuidubindlae; so called because it binds 
or winds round trees, < wudu, widu, tree, wood, 
+ bindan, bind : see wood^ and bind.l The com- 
mon European honeysuckle, Lonicera Pciicly- 
meninn, whence the name is more or less ex- 
tended to other honeysuckles. L. grata, a species 
very similar to L. Periclymenum, is designated Ameri- 
can woodbine. The name is also given to the Virginia 
creeper, Ampelopsis qxtinquefoUa. 
Alioute a tre with many a twiste 
Bytrent and writhen is the soote woodbi/ude 
Chaucer, Troiius, iii. 1231. 
So doth the woodbitie the sweet honeysuckle 
Gently entwist. Shak., il. N. D., iv. 1. 47. 
Spanish woodbine, the seven-year vine, or Spanish nr- 
bor-vlne. Ipomsea tuoerosa. See uin«. — Wild woodbine. 
See lofldi. 
