English Dictionary: Wode | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wode \Wode\, a. [AS. w[omac]d.] Mad. See {Wood}, a. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wode \Wode\, n. Wood. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wood \Wood\ (w[oocr]d), a. [OE. wod, AS. w[omac]d; akin to OHG. wuot, Icel. [omac][edh]r, Goth. w[omac]ds, D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. w[omac][edh] song, Icel. [omac][edh]r, L. vates a seer, a poet. Cf. {Wednesday}.] Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.] [Written also {wode}.] Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood. --Chaucer. |