Bryant.
Woo, v. i. To court; to make love. Dryden.
Wood (wd), a. [OE. wod, AS. wd; akin to OHG. wuot, Icel. ðr, Goth. wds,
D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. wð song, Icel. ðr, L. vates
a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday.] Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious;
frantic. [Obs.] [Written also wode.]
Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.
Chaucer.
Wood, v. i. To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. Chaucer.
Wood, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel.
vi&?;r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W.
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.
Shak.
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." Milton.
3. (Bot.) 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.