| wood | Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. Alternative forms: wode] "Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood." (Chaucer) Origin: OE. Wod, AS. Wd; akin to OHG. Wuot, Icel. R, Goth. Wds, D. Woede madness, G. Wuth, wut, also to AS. W song, Icel. R, L. Vates a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday. To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive. Origin: Wooded; Wooding. To take or get a supply of wood. 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." 3. <botany> 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. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid, Wood vinegar Any one of several species of handsomely coloured South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar. "We cast the lots . . . For the wood offering." (Neh. X. <botany> 34) Wood oil The wood warbler. The willow warbler. Origin: OE. Wode, wude, AS. Wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. Witu, Icel. Vir, Dan. & Sw. Ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. Fiodh, W. Gwydd trees, shrubs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wood alcohol | CH3OH;a flammable, toxic, mobile liquid, used as an industrial solvent, antifreeze, and in chemical manufacture; ingestion may result in severe acidosis, visual impairment, and other effects on the central nervous system. Synonym: carbinol, methanol, pyroligneous alcohol, pyroligneous spirit, pyroxylic spirit, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, wood spirit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood-bound | Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood charcoal | Charcoal obtained by charring vegetable tissues, especially the wood of willow, beech, birch, or oak. Synonym: wood charcoal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood-layer | <botany> A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood naphtha | CH3OH;a flammable, toxic, mobile liquid, used as an industrial solvent, antifreeze, and in chemical manufacture; ingestion may result in severe acidosis, visual impairment, and other effects on the central nervous system. Synonym: carbinol, methanol, pyroligneous alcohol, pyroligneous spirit, pyroxylic spirit, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, wood spirit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood-note | A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. "Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." (Milton) Origin: Wood, n. + note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wood, Paul | <person> See: Wood units. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wood, Robert | <person> U.S. Physicist, 1868-1955. See: Wood's glass, Wood's lamp, Wood's light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood-sare | <botany> A kind of froth seen on herbs. Origin: Wood + Prov. E. Sare for sore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-sere | The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. Alternative forms: wood-seer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wood's glass | A glass containing nickel oxide, used in Wood's lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wood's lamp | An ultraviolet lamp with a nickel oxide filter that only passes light with a maximal wavelength of about 3660 A |
| Wood's light | Ultraviolet light produced by Wood's lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood's metal | A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66 deg to 71 deg C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |