Wood (?), a. [OE. wod, AS. w�d; akin to OHG. wuot, Icel. ��r, Goth. w�ds, D. woede madness, G. wuth, wut, also to AS. w�� song, Icel. ��r, L. vates a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday.] Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Written also wode.]
Our hoste gan to swear as he were wood. Chaucer.