wooden (2)

[Eng. wood, a.; -en.] Mad. "A dog in the wood or a wooden dog." Peele : Old Wives' Tale, i. 1. wood-en-ly, adv . [Eng. wooden (1); -ly.] In a wooden manner; clumsily, stiffly, stupidly. "How woodenly he would excuse himself."- North : Life "I have not the breath of a woodcock's head."-Ben of Lord Guilford , ii. 22. Jonson: Every Man out of His Humor, iii. 3.