Cedar
['siːdə] or ['sidɚ]
Definition
(noun.) any cedar of the genus Cedrus.
(noun.) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests.
(noun.) any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
Editor: Philip--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
(a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.
Inputed by Edgar
Definition
n. a large evergreen tree remarkable for the durability and fragrance of its wood; applied also to many more or less similar trees as the Barbadoes cedar properly a juniper and the Bastard Barbadoes cedar properly a Cedrela (used for canoes cigar-boxes blacklead pencils).—adj. made of cedar.—adjs. Cē′dared covered with cedars; Cē′darn (Milton) pertaining to or made of cedar; Cē′drine belonging to the cedar-tree; Cē′dry obsolete form of Cē′dary having the colour or properties of cedar.
Typist: Shane
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing them green and shapely, denotes pleasing success in an undertaking. To see them dead or blighted, signifies despair. No object will be attained from seeing them thus.
Edited by Barton
Examples
- Earnest was the gaze that scrutinized them as they emerged from behind the trunk of the cedar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They looked up at the long, low house, dim and glamorous in the wet morning, its cedar trees slanting before the windows. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Cedar Creek, Va. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She stood quietly near the window, looking at the grand cedar on her lawn watching a bird on one of its lower boughs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There were small figures on the green lawn, women in lavender and yellow moving to the shade of the enormous, beautifully balanced cedar tree. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Red wood, a species of cedar, which on the Pacific coast takes the place filled by white pine in the East, then abounded on the banks of Humboldt Bay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Hoke was no longer needed in North Carolina; and Sigel's troops having gone back to Cedar Creek, whipped, many troops could be spared from the valley. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His army was then at Cedar Creek, some twenty miles south of Winchester. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That is The Cedars, and beside that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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