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- noun Obsolete form of
wood .
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Examples
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Thei occupie bowes of woode seasoned in the fire, of foure cubites long.
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The woode Ebenum (which some suppose to be our Guayacum) groweth there, and not elles where.
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Thei haue greate plenty of Hebenum, a woode muche like Guaiacum, and of Siliquastrum.
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And when vpon other daies, nature forced theim to that easemente, thei caried with theim a litle spade of woode, wherewith in place most secreate, thei vsed to digge a litle pit, to laie their bealie in.
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At all solempne suppers, when a number is gathered, and the tables withdrawen, some one of the company carieth aboute in an open case, the image of death, caruen out of woode, or drawen with the pencille as niere to the vine as is possible, of a cubite, or two cubites long at the moste.
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At the doores of their churches, they vsually build some entrance or porch as we doe, and in their churchyardes they erect a certain house of woode, wherein they set vp their bels, wherein sometimes they haue but one, in some two, and in some also three.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This done, we set on fire the woode which lay on the shore piled and heaped in the woods, but in this place we found not any
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When the stag toolc off, it didn't iwst go into the woode
Greenmantle De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1985
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The Lion on a tyme gaue a commaunde - ment, that all horned beastes should flie from the woode, and none to remain there but vnhorned beastes.
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By the aduise then of Adelasia, the Saxone Prince forced by necessitie (the maistresse of all artes) retired into those forestes where he practised the occupation of a Collier, and some said that nature taught him the order howe to cutte his woode, to make readie his pittes, and to knowe the season and tyme when his coales were burned enough.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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