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Wood
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.
(2):
(a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
(3):
(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.
(8):
(v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wood'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​w/wood.html. 1828.