Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WOOD, n. [Sax. wuda, wudu; D. woud; W. gwyz.]

1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest. Light thickens, and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood. – Shak.
2. The substance of trees; the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark.
3. Trees cut or sawed for the firewood is yet the principal fuel in the United States.
4. An idol. – Hab. ii.