(organic chemistry) The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.

An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood. / A surname originating as an occupation for a woodsman. / An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa.

Any bird of species Mentocrex kioloides (syn. Canirallus kioloides), rails of Madagascar.

(ornithology) The capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.

(UK, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, India) To make contact with wood to avert bad luck, in accordance with a folk practice.

(idiomatic, UK, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India) Hopefully; said while touching something wooden, to avert superstitious bad luck from what has just been said.

A skunk.

(botany) the vertical and usually axially arranged parenchyma of the xylem that is believed to function chiefly in carbohydrate storage

(biblical) The wood used in the construction of Noah's Ark - currently unidentified.

(idiomatic, US) To take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted by a presumptuous statement.