The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wood \Wood\ (w[oo^]d), a. [OE. wod, AS. w[=o]d; akin to OHG. wuot, Icel. [=o][eth]r, Goth. w[=o]ds, D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. w[=o][eth] song, Icel. [=o][eth]r, L. vates a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday.] Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.]
Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. (context archaic English) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic. alt. (context archaic English) mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic. Etymology 2
n. (obsolete spelling of woad English)
Wikipedia
Wode is a surname and may refer to:
- Peter Atte Wode (fl. ca. 1325–1382), English judge
- Thomas Wode (died 1502), British judge
- Thomas Wode (MP) (by 1469–1532), English politician
Usage examples of "wode".
Maester Gulian consulted a map and announced that these hills were held by the brothers Wode, a pair of landed knights sworn to Harrenhal .
Tyrone was holding his own as a freelance photographer, while Tanya was a metallurgical engineer at Wode Metallurgical Laboratories.
I am convinced that wode was the forerunner of the dress of the Village ball!
This Chauntecleer stood hye upon his toos, Strecchynge his nekke, and heeld hise eyen cloos, And gan to crowe loude for the nones, And daun Russell the fox stirte up atones, And by the gargat hente Chauntecleer, And on his bak toward the wode hym beer, For yet ne was ther no man that hym sewed.
Ne how the fyr was couched first with stree, And thanne with drye stokkes clovena thre, And thanne with grene wode and spicerye, And thanne with clooth of gold and with perrye, And gerlandes hangynge with ful many a flour, The mirre, thencens, with al so greet odour.