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And he came to a vast desert wood, and at the further end of the wood was a meadow, and on the other side of the meadow he saw a large castle.

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  1. noun The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.
  2. noun This tissue, often cut and dried especially for use as building material and fuel.
  3. noun A dense growth of trees or underbrush covering a relatively small or confined area. Often used in the plural.
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  • The wood is just wood, to me But the wood was affecting you before! —  The Source of Magic
  • Then the city typically has the contractor take it, as the wood is the city's to do with it as it pleases. —  lsj.com - News
  • That would produce a dangerous bending stress, but, as long as the wood is arched, or, at any rate, kept from bending downwards, it will remain in direct compression and no danger can result 2. —  The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
  • And he came to a vast desert wood, and at the further end of the wood was a meadow, and on the other side of the meadow he saw a large castle. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • Somewhere in the heart of the wood was the knock-knock of an occasional rifle. —  Letters from France
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  1. Middle English wode, from Old English wudu.
  2. Middle English, from Old English wōd; see wet-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wode, wude, wod (plural wodes, wudes), from Anglo-Saxon wudu, orig. widu, a wood, a tree, wood, timber, = Middle Dutch MEG. wede, a wood, wood, = Old High German witu, MUG. wife, wood, = Icelandic vithr = Swedish Danish ved, a tree, wood; akin to (ac cording to some, derived from) the Celtic words Old Irish fīd, Irish fiodh, a wood, tree (fiodais, shrub bery, underwood), = Gaelic fiodh, a wilderness, wood, timber (fiodhach, shrubs), = Welsh gwydd, trees (gwyddeli, bushes, brakes).
  2. from wood, n.
  3. Scots wod, wud; from Middle English wood, woode, wod, wode, from Anglo-Saxon wōd, mad, raging, furious, = Icelandic ōdhr, raging, frantic, = Goth, wōds, mad; cf. Middle Dutch woed, woede, Dutch woede, Old High German wuot, Middle High German G. wut, wuth, madness; Anglo-Saxon wōd, voice, song, = Icelandic ōdhr, song, poetry, mind, wit; prob. allied to L. vātes, a prophet, bard (one filled with “a fine frenzy”): see vatic. See Woden, Wednesday.
  4. from Middle English wooden, wodien; from the adjective Cf. weed.
 

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