wood
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1. wood - Noun
2. wood - Adjective
3. wood - Verb
4. Wood - Proper noun
Meaning
Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
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.
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.
Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
To take or get a supply of wood.
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.
In the house of a blacksmith the ornaments are made of wood.
Without wood the fire would die.