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† ˈwoodwose, ˈwoodhouse, n. Obs. (exc. Hist.).
Forms: 1 wudewasa, 4 wodwos, (-wysse), 4–5 wodewese, 4–6 wodewose, 5 wodwose, (-wous(e, -woys, -wosh(e, -wyssh(e, wodewyse), 5–6 woodwose, -wyss, 6 -woss, pl. wodys, vodys. β. 5 woodowes, 6 wodowes, woodos(e, wodehouse, -howse, wood(e)hous(e.
[Late OE. wudewása, f. wudu wood n.1 + *wása (of obscure origin).]
A wild man of the woods; a savage; a satyr, faun; a person dressed to represent such a being in a pageant.
Sometimes taken for or construed as pl.
a1100Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 108/22 Satiri, uel fauni,..uel fauni ficarii, unfæle men, wudewasan, unfæle wihtu. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 721 Sumwhyle wyth wormez he werrez,..Sumwhyle wyth wodwos, þat woned in þe knarrez. 13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LVII. 261 Þis Breusteres douhtur..tolde þe folk as wodewose wilde Who gat on hire þis forseyde childe. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. xix. (Tollem. MS.) Þerin [sc. in Africa] ben satires, wodewoses, tigris, and oþer horrible bestes. a1400Morte Arth. 3817 Alls vnwyse wodewyse he wente at þe gayneste. c1440Partonope 7691 [4737] in Anglia XII. 616 Partanope hath now forsake The wodwous [v. rr. wodwoys, wodwose, wodwouse] lyfe. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 257 The Kyng of Frauns daunsed in his halle with iiii knites, and was arayed lich a wodwous. 1484Caxton Fables of Auian xxii, A wodewose named Satyre. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 109 Woode wosis be vpward nostrelde, Satyri sunt sili. 1555Machyn Diary (Camden) 96 Men lyke wodys alle in gren. 1556Withals Dict. (1562) 15 A wodewose, satyrus.
βa1505in Kingsford Chron. Lond. (1905) 251 Fourthly came..the Erle of Essex..wt a woodhous precedyng, and beryng a Sere tre. 1525Fitzherb. Husb. Colophon, Emprynted at London in Southwarke, at the sygne of the wodowes. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 9 b, These beastes were led with certayne men appareiled like wilde men, or woodhouses. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. Pref. A iij, Some wente naked, some romed lyke woodoses, none did anye thing by reason. [1832Aspin Anc. Customs etc. English 251 The savage men, or wodehouses, as they are sometimes called, frequently made their appearance in the public shows. 1866J. Nicholl Comp. Ironmongers 86 note, The engravings..represent ivy-men or wood-wards, characters introduced in the pageants..of that period [c 1515]. They were sometimes called woodhouses. ]
b. A figure of such a being, as a decoration, a heraldic bearing or supporter, etc.
1355in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (1911) 465 Item j. botoner de roses, pris xl s. Item j. botoner de wodewoses, pris c s. 1381Test. Ebor. (Surtees) I. 121 Lectum..broudatum cum signis de wodewese. a1400–50Wars Alex. 1540 A vestoure..Wroȝt full of wodwose & oþer wild bestis. 1498Test. Ebor. (Surtees) IV. 133 Sex cocliaria optima arg[entea] cum wodwoshes.
β1493Will of Feld (Somerset Ho.), Dosen spones of siluer with woodowes on thende. 1513in Archaeologia LXVI. 347 A Counterpoint of woodehouse lyned wt canvas. 1531Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 49, vj Sponys with woodos gylt. [1910F. Bond Misericords 16 The wodehouse is a very common supporter in heraldry. 1920Archaeologia Ser. ii. XIX. 81 Three woodhouses; between crosses.]
Hence † ˈwoodwose v. intr., to run wild.
13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LVII. 274 Ho is wodore þen þat mon Þat muche skile and resun con..And goþ siþen wod wosande? |