Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WON'DER-ING-LY, adv.

In a wondering manner.

WON'DER-MENT, n.

Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance. [Vulgar.]

WON'DER-STRUCK, a. [wonder and struck.]

Struck with wonder, admiration and surprise. – Dryden.

WON-DER-WORK-ING, a.

Doing wonders or surprising things.

WON'DROUS, a.

Admirable; marvelous; such as may excite surprise and astonishment; strange. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell, of all thy wondrous works. – Ps. xxvi.

WON'DROUS, adv.

In a wonderful or surprising degree; as, a place wondrous deep; you are wondrous fair; wondrous fond of peace. These phrases of Cowley, Dryden and Pope, are admissible only in the ludicrous and burlesque style.

WON'DROUS-LY, adv.

In a strange or wonderful manner or degree. Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggriev'd. – Glanville.

WONT, a. [wont is strictly the participle passive of won, wone; Sax. wunian, to dwell, to remain, to endure, to exist, to consist; G. wohnen, D. woonen. But the D. has wennen, Sw. vånia, Dan. vænner, to accustom; Ir. fanaim, to remain. In English, the verb is obsolete; but we retain the participle in use, and form it into a verb. See the Verb.]

Accustomed; habituated; using or doing customarily. If the ox were wont to push with his horn. – Exod. xxi. They were wont to speak in old time, saying … – 2 Sam. xx. See Matth. xxvii, 15. Luke xxii, 39.

WONT, n.

Custom; habit; use. [Obs.] – Sidney. Hooker.

WONT, v.

A contraction of woll not, that is, will not.

WONT, v.i.

To be accustomed or habituated; to be used. A yearly solemn feast she wont to make. – Spenser. Wherewith he wont to soar so high. [Obs.] – Waller.

WONT-ED, pp.

1. Accustomed; used. Again his wonted weapon prov'd. – Spenser.
2. Accustomed; made familiar by use. She was wonted to the place and would not remove. – L'Estrange.

WONT-ED-NESS, n.

The state of being accustomed. – King Charles.

WONT-LESS, a.

Unaccustomed; unused. [Obs.] – Spenser.

WOO, v.i.

To court; to make love. – Dryden.

WOO, v.t. [Sax. wogan, whence awogod, wooed.]

1. To court; to solicit in love. My proud rival wooes / Another partner to his throne and bed. – Phillips. Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought. – Prior.
2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. Thee, chantress, oft the woods among / I woo to hear thy even song. – Milton.

WOOD, a. [Sax. wod.]

Mad; furious. [Obs.] – Spenser.

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.

WOOD, v.i.

To supply or get supplies of wood.

WOOD-AN-EM'O-NE, n.

A plant, Anemone nemorosa. [See Anemone.]

WOOD'-ASH-ES, n. [wood and ashes.]

The remains of burnt wood or plants. [This word is used in England to distinguish these ashes from the remains of coal. In the United States, where wood chiefly is burnt, the people usually say simply ashes. But as coal becomes more used, the English distinction will be necessary.]

WOOD'-BIND, or WOOD'-BIN, n.

A name given to the honeysuckle, a species of Lonicera.

WOOD-BOUND, a. [wood and bound.]

Encumbered with tall woody hedgerows.

WOOD'-CHAT, n.

A species of butcher bird.

WOOD'CHOIR, n.

Songsters in a wood.