Answer:
The more you take away from it the larger it becomes. What is it?
Weight in my belly trees on my back nails in my ribs feet I do lack.
I am a word with 5 letters. Bold are the first; true are the second; playful are the third; clever are the fourth; forceful are the fifth.
I am wood that is neither hard straight or crooked
Though it be cold, I wear no clothes. The frost and snow I never fear. I value neither shoes nor hose and yet I wander far and near. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.