Obs. Also 4–5 wode. [f. prec.] intr. To go mad; to rave, rage (also fig.).
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., IV. met. iii. (1868), 123. Þouȝ þei ne anoye nat þe body, ȝitte vices wooden to distroien men by wounde of þouȝt. Ibid. (c. 1386), Sec. Nun’s T., 467. He stareth and he woodeth in his Aduertence.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 282. Whan I ne may my ladi se, The more I am redy to wraththe,… I wode as doth the wylde Se.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. cxvi. (1869), 61. Deth is a beste so wylde that who so seeth it he woodeth.
c. 1440. Ipomydon, 1144. The kynge … began to wode, That his knyghtes bore downe were.
