Definition of Wood

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Definition of Wood

Wood

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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Wood Quotations

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
George Carlin

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Layne Staley

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth

Wood Translations

wood in Afrikaans is hout
wood in Dutch is hout
wood in Finnish is puu
wood in Italian is legno, selva, boschetto, legna
wood in Norwegian is ved
wood in Portuguese is madeira

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