a. Now rare. Also 6 wodd-, 6–7 woodd [f. WOOD sb.1 + -ISH1.]
1. Having the nature, quality or consistence of wood; (somewhat) woody.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 40 b. The braunches [of Lithospermon] are … strong … and woddishe. Ibid., 87. A … woddish torche or fyrebrande.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 115. Quince-Peares are of a verie hard and wooddish substance.
1721. Mortimer, Husb., II. 214. Bastard-bittany … having many brown woodish Stalks.
† 2. Belonging to or characteristic of the woods or wooded country; sylvan. Obs.
1588. T. Thomas, Lat. Dict. (1615), Faunicus … wilde, wooddish, rude.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xi. 116. Wanton woodish sports.
1630. Capt. J. Smith, Trav. & Adv., 2. He retired himselfe into a little wooddie pasture…. Here … he built a Pavillion of boughes…. His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga … to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances.
