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Wooden

Made or consisting of wood.

Wood

The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.

Wooden

Stiff and unnatural; without spirit
A wooden performance.
A wooden smile.

Wood

This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.

Wooden

Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.

Wood

A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.
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Wooden

Made of wood.
A wooden boat
On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.
In such a case, you can make a very good case for wooden cases.

Wood

A forest.

Wooden

(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
Wooden acting

Wood

(Music) A woodwind.

Wooden

Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.

Wood

(Sports) Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft.
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Wooden

Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.
His singing was, I confess, a little wooden.

Wood

To fuel with wood.

Wooden

Made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood;
A wooden box
An ancient cart with wooden wheels
Wood houses
A wood fire

Wood

To cover with trees; forest.

Wooden

Lacking ease or grace;
The actor's performance was wooden
A wooden smile

Wood

To gather or be supplied with wood.
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Wood

Made or consisting of wood; wooden.

Wood

Used or suitable for cutting, storing, or working with wood.

Wood

Woods Living, growing, or present in forests
Woods animals.
A woods path.

Wood

Mentally deranged.

Wood

(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
This table is made of wood.
There was lots of wood on the beach.

Wood

(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.

Wood

A forested or wooded area.
A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.
He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.

Wood

Firewood.
We need more wood for the fire.

Wood

A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

Wood

(music) A woodwind instrument.

Wood

An erection of the penis.
That girl at the strip club gave me wood.

Wood

Chess pieces.

Wood

A peckerwood.

Wood

(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.

Wood

To hide behind trees.

Wood

(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
To wood a steamboat or a locomotive

Wood

(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.

Wood

(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

Wood

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.
Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood.

Wood

To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

Wood

To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

Wood

To take or get a supply of wood.

Wood

A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.
Light thickens, and the crowMakes wing to the rooky wood.

Wood

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.

Wood

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

Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering.

Wood

The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

Wood

The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

Wood

United States film actress (1938-1981)

Wood

English conductor (1869-1944)

Wood

English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

Wood

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

Wood

Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

Wood

A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; metal woods are now available

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