Beech
[biːtʃ] or [bitʃ]
Definition
(noun.) any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions.
(noun.) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles.
Edited by Charlene--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tree of the genus Fagus.
Typist: Montague
Definition
n. a common forest tree with smooth silvery-looking bark and small edible nuts.—adj. Beech′en.—ns. Beech′-mast the mast or nuts of the beech-tree which yield a valuable oil; Beech′-oil oil expressed from the nuts of the beech-tree.
Typist: Nelda
Examples
- Switches were brought in bundles, from a beech wood near the school house, by the boys for whose benefit they were intended. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- White--the school teacher --now, with his long beech switch always in his hand. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There was a small garden on the place where the beech-tree had been. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He had for food hazel-nuts, beech-nuts, sweet chestnuts, earth-nuts, and acorns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the air, the unfolding leaves of a copper-beech were blood-red. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Bentwood Ware Factories of Austria, Hungary, Moravia (1870-73), in Vast Beech Forests Followed in other Countries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thou hast never known a forest of beech, nor of oak, nor of chestnut. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have it here and I will read it to you: 'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Copper Beeches, five miles on the far side of Winchester. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Whatever landscape might lie further must have been flat, and these tall beeches shut it out. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A bubbling spring prattles over stones on one side, and a plantation of a few elms and beeches, hardly deserve, and yet continue the name of wood. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Let us sit here, Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- On the very first day that I was at the Copper Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands near the kitchen door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A clump of copper beeches immediately in front of the hall door has given its name to the place. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Debra