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We cannot fight for love, as men may do; 
We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. Shakspeare. 
To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. 
Yet can she love a foreign emperor. 
Whom of great worth and pow’r she hears to be; 
If she be woo'd but by ambassador. 
Or but his letters or his pictures see: 
So while the virgin soul on earth doth stay. 
She woo'd and tempted is ten thousand ways 
By these great pow’rs, which on the earth bear sway, 
The wisdom of the world, wealth, pleasure, praise. Davies. 
To WOO, v. n. To court; to make love. 
With pomp, and trains, and in a crowd they woo, 
When true felicity is but in two. Dryden. 
WOOD, adj. [wods, Gothick; pob, Saxon; woed, 
Dutch.] Mad; furious; raging. Written also wode. A 
provincial term for angry, almost mad with anger.—Sure 
these wanton swains are wode. Fletcher. 
WOOD, s. [pube, Saxon; woud, Dutch.] A large and 
thick collection of trees. 
St. Valentine is past: 
Begin these w&orZ-birds but to couple now ? Shakspeare. 
Light thickens, and the crow 
Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shakspeare. 
The substance of trees; timber. 
Balm his foul head with warm distilled waters. 
And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet. 
Shakspeare. 
WOOD (Anthony), the Oxford Antiquary, was born 
at Oxford in 1632, and entered of Merton college in 1647. 
Having commenced M.A., and acquired a taste for studies 
pertaining to antiquity, he pursued with indefatigable dili¬ 
gence both at Oxford and in London researches, which fur¬ 
nished him with materials for his “ History and Antiquities 
of the University of Oxford,” a copy of which he sold to 
the university in 1669 for 100/. It was written in English, 
but afterwards translated into Latin, under the inspection of 
Dr. Fell; and the version was published from the Oxford 
press in 1674, under the title of “ Historia et Antiquitates 
Universitatis Oxoniensis, duobus Voluminibuscomprehensa,” 
fol. The first part of this work includes the annals of the 
university, from its earliest period to the year 1648; ?md the 
second contains an account of all its particular foundations, 
endowments, officers, &c. The translation is badly exe¬ 
cuted, and Wood, the original author, was destitute of those 
qualifications that would have rendered him a fit historian of 
a learned university. Another of Wood’s works was his 
“ Athena; Oxonienses; or, an Account, in English, of al¬ 
most all the Writers educated at Oxford, and many of those 
at the Sister University, from the year 1500.” It was first 
published in 1691, 2 vols. fol., and soon after subjected 
him to a prosecution in the vice-chancellor’s court for his 
account of Lord Clarendon, and to various other attacks, 
occasioned by his partialities, and more especially by his 
strong bias in favour of popery. His style is vulgar, and 
his sentiments illiberal and unphilosophical; but his veracity 
entitles him to confidence. He died in 1695, and be¬ 
queathed his books and papers to the university of Oxford. 
A second edition of this work, corrected and enlarged from 
the author’s MS., was published in 1721.— Biog. Brit. 
WOOD, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Ashill, 
Somersetshire. 
WOOD, a county of the United States, in the north-west 
part of Virginia, bounded on the north-east by Ohio and 
Harrison counties, on the south-east by Harrison and Ken- 
hawa counties, on the south-west by Kenhawa and Mason 
counties, and on the north-west by the Ohio. Population 
3036. Slaves 450. 
WOOD’S BAY, a sandy bay in the straits of Magellan, 
on the South American shore, in which there is good anchor¬ 
ing. Lat. 53. 58. S. long. 72. 55. W. 
WOOD CREEK, a river of the United States, in New 
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York, which runs north into the south end of Lake Cham¬ 
plain. Length 23 miles. 
WOOD CREEK, a river of the United States, in Oneida 
county. New York, which runs west into Oneida lake. It is 
connected with the Mohawk by a canal 1| mile long, and 
navigable for boats of 12 or 15 tons. 
WOOD CREEK. See Preston’s Creek. 
WOOD ISLAND, a small island of the'* United States, 
near the coast of Maine; 15 miles north-east of Cape Por¬ 
poise. Lat. 43. 26. N. long. 70. 24. W. 
WOOD POINT, a cape of Scotland, at the east extremity 
of the county of Fife; 2 miles north of St. Andrew’s. 
WOOD RIVER, a river of North America, which falls 
into the Mississippi, opposite to the entrance of the Missouri. 
Lat. 38. 55. 19. N. long. 89. 57. 45. W. 
WOODAH ISLE, a long curved island in the gulf of 
Carpentaria, on the west coast, extending about 13 miles in 
length. Lat. of its northern point, 13. 22. S. 
WOOD-ANE'MONE, s. A plant. 
WOODBANK, a township of England, in the parish of 
Shotwick, Cheshire. 
WOODBASTON, a hamlet of England, in Staffordshire, 
adjoining to Penkridge. 
WOODBASTWICK, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 5 
miles north-west of Acle. 
WOODBERRY, a township of the United States, in 
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. Population 1107. 
WOO'DBIND, or Woo'dbine, s. [pubbinb, Saxon; 
periclymenon, Lat.] Honeysuckle. See Lonicera. 
Beatrice, e’en now 
Couch’d in the woodbine coverture. Shakspeare. 
WOODBOROUGH, a parish of England, in Notting¬ 
hamshire ; 6 miles north-east of Nottingham. Population 
611.—2. A hamlet in the parish of Wellow, Somersetshire. 
—3. A parish in Wiltshire, near Pewsey. 
WOODBRIDGE, a market town of England, in the 
county of Suffolk, situated in a long narrow tract, nearly 
surrounded by the hundreds of Carlford and Wilford, on the 
east side of a sandy hill, commanding a pleasant view down 
the river Deben, which falls into the sea at the distance of 
about ten miles. The principal streets of Woodbridge, one 
of which is near a mile in length, though narrow, contain 
many good houses, and are tolerably well paved. The mar¬ 
ket-place is clean and well built; and in the middle of it is 
an ancient shire-hall, in which the quarter sessions for the 
liberty of St. Etheldred are held; and under the court-house 
is the market-hall. The church, a spacious and noble struc¬ 
ture, is conjectured to have been built in the reign of Edward 
III., by John lord Segrave, and his wife Margaret de Brother- 
ton, whose arms are yet to be seen over the door of the 
steeple. It consists of a nave and two aisles, the roofs of 
which are supported by ten beautiful Gothic pillars, and four 
demy ones. The exterior walls are of black flints. Ad¬ 
joining to the chancel on the north side is a private chapel, 
erected by Thomas Seckford, esq., master of requests in the 
reign of queen Elizabeth; the east window of which is 
adorned with a fluted pilaster. The north portico is deco¬ 
rated in front with the representation, in relievo, of Michael, 
the archangel, encountering the dragon. In the church were 
formerly the altars of St. Anne and St. Saviour, and the cha¬ 
pel of St. Nicholas in the north aisle; and either in the walls 
of the church, or in the church-yard, stood a celebrated image 
of Our Lady, to whom this edifice was dedicated. The large 
quadrangular tower, 10S feet high, forms a conspicuous ob¬ 
ject at sea : it is built of the same materials as the church ; 
and towards the top the flint and stone are beautifully in¬ 
termixed in various devices. The corners are finely orna¬ 
mented ; and on the battlements between them are the badges 
of the four evangelists. This steeple, with the north portico, 
was built, or perhaps more correctly speaking, repaired, 
about the middle of the 15th century, as appears from nu¬ 
merous legacies bequeathed about that time by various per¬ 
sons. Upon a stone inserted in the wall of the north side, at 
about the height of 24 feet, is a mutilated inscription, upon 
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