Pine
[paɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a coniferous tree.
(noun.) straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus.
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Definition
(n.) Woe; torment; pain.
(v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
(v.) To grieve or mourn for.
(v. i.) To suffer; to be afflicted.
(v. i.) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away.
(v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.
(n.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
(n.) The wood of the pine tree.
(n.) A pineapple.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Languish, droop, flag, waste, decay, waste away.
Editor: Simon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Squeeze, grip, press, compress, nip, distress,[See GRIPE]
SYN:Waste_away, droop, fade, wither, decline, decay, sink,[See LANGUISH]
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Definition
v.i. to waste away under pain or mental distress: to languish with longing.—v.t. to grieve for: to bewail.—n. wasting pain: weary suffering.—Done to pine starved to death.
n. a northern cone-bearing evergreen resinous tree furnishing valuable timber.—adj. Pin′eal.—ns. Pin′eal-gland a rounded body about the size of a pea of a slightly yellowish colour situated upon the anterior pair of corpora quadrigemina and connected with the optic thalami by two strands of nerve fibres termed its peduncles; Pine′-app′le a tropical plant and its fruit shaped like a pine-cone; Pine′-barr′en a level sandy tract growing pines; Pine′-chā′fer a beetle which eats pine-leaves.—adjs. Pine′-clad Pine′-crowned clad or crowned with pine-trees.—ns. Pine′-cone the cone or strobilus of a pine-tree; Pine′-finch a small fringilline bird of North America; Pine′-house a pinery; Pine′-need′le the circular leaf of the pine-tree; Pine′-oil an oil obtained from the resinous exudations of pine and fir trees; Pin′ery a place where pine-apples are raised: a pine forest; Pinē′tum a plantation of pine-trees: a collection of pine-trees for ornamental purposes; Pine′-wood a wood of pine-trees: pine timber; Pine′-wool a fibrous substance prepared from the leaves of the pine and used for flannels hosiery and blankets in hospitals.—adjs. Pī′nic pertaining to or obtained from the pine: noting an acid consisting of the portion of common resin soluble in cold alcohol; Pinic′oline inhabiting pine-woods; Pī′ny Pī′ney abounding in pine-trees.—Pine-tree money silver money coined at Boston in the 17th century and so called from the coins bearing the rude figure of a pine-tree on one side.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a pine tree in a dream, foretells unvarying success in any undertaking. Dead pine, for a woman, represents bereavement and cares.
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Examples
- Get thee down, Robert Jordan whispered to Agustín, and he turned his head and flicked his hand _Down, Down_, to Anselmo who was coming through the gap with a pine tree, carrying it over his shoulder like a Christmas tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Some were for getting flambeaux of pine-knots. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- What a day it is and how I am contented not to be in pine trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Who that knows what life is, would pine for this feverish species of existence? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was so dark now you could only see the flakes blowing past and the rigid dark of the pine trunks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Primitivo brought the pine branches and Robert Jordan stuck them through the snow into the unfrozen earth, arching them over the gun from either side. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I climbed a near tree: the level sands bounded by a pine forest, and the sea clipped round by the horizon, was all that I could discern. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre, and add an air of severity to the scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We have an acre of hot-houses, and pines as common as pays in the sayson. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- By the time they reached the camp it was snowing and the flakes were dropping diagonally through the pines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Down out of the gray rocks and the pines, the heather and the gorse, across the yellow high plateau you see it rising white and beautiful. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So do I like the pines, but we have been too long in these pines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Could she say, I refuse to content this pining hunger? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As she got well, she was pining for society. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Like a love-lorn maiden, pale and pining for a neglectful swain? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I thought of the little baby, who, Mrs. Creakle said, had been pining away for some time, and who, they believed, would die too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Are we pining in secret? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Pining to be told. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thus vanquished and restricted, she pined, like any other chained denizen of deserts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I wadn't heed if t' bairns and t' wife had enough to live on; but they're pinched--they're pined---- Well, my lad, and so are you; I see you are. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ye see we're ill off--varry ill off; wer families is poor and pined. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This is what he pined after. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It did not nourish me: I pined on itand got as thin as a shadow: otherwise I was not ill. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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