Tree

[triː] or [tri]

Definition

(noun.) English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917).

(noun.) a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms.

(noun.) a figure that branches from a single root; 'genealogical tree'.

(verb.) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree.

(verb.) chase an animal up a tree; 'the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it'; 'her dog likes to tree squirrels'.

(verb.) plant with trees; 'this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer'.

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Definition

(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

(n.) Wood; timber.

(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

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Definition

n. a plant having a single trunk woody branched and of a large size: anything like a tree: wood as in the compounds axle-tree saddle-tree &c.: a cudgel: (B.) a cross.—v.t. to drive into a tree to corner: to form on a tree.—v.i. to take refuge in a tree.—ns. Tree′-cac′tus the giant cactus or saguaro; Tree′-calf a light-brown calf bookbinding stained by acids into a conventional pattern supposed to resemble the trunk of a tree and its branches; Tree′-dove one of many arboricole Indian pigeons; Tree′-fern a fern with a tree-like woody stem and a head of fronds resembling the leaves of palms found only in tropical countries; Tree′-frog a family of Amphibians more closely related in structure to the toads than to frogs proper.—adjs. Tree′less having no trees; Trēēn wooden made of wood: (Spens.) of trees.—ns. Tree′nail Tre′nail a long wooden pin or nail to fasten the planks of a ship to the timbers; Tree′-nymph a hamadryad; Tree′-of-lib′erty a tree dedicated to liberty set up in some public place; Tree′-of-life arbor vit? a tree in the garden of Eden described in Gen. ii. 9; Tree′ship existence as a tree; Tree′-top the top of a tree; Tree′-wor′ship dendrolatry.

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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.

To dream of trees in new foliage, foretells a happy consummation of hopes and desires. Dead trees signal sorrow and loss. To climb a tree is a sign of swift elevation and preferment. To cut one down, or pull it up by the roots, denotes that you will waste your energies and wealth foolishly. To see green tress newly felled, portends unhappiness coming unexpectedly upon scenes of enjoyment, or prosperity. See Forest.

To dream of a yew tree, is a forerunner of illness and disappointment. If a young woman sits under one, she will have many fears to rend her over her fortune and the faithfulness of her lover. If she sees her lover standing by one, she may expect to hear of his illness, or misfortune. To admire one, she will estrange herself from her relatives by a mesalliance. To visit a yew tree and find it dead and stripped of its foliage, predicts a sad death in your family. Property will not console for this loss.

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n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus though through a miscarriage of justice most trees bear only a negligible fruit or none at all. When naturally fruited the tree is a beneficient agency of civilization and an important factor in public morals. In the stern West and the sensitive South its fruit (white and black respectively) though not eaten is agreeable to the public taste and though not exported profitable to the general welfare. That the legitimate relation of the tree to justice was no discovery of Judge Lynch (who indeed conceded it no primacy over the lamp-post and the bridge-girder) is made plain by the following passage from Morryster who antedated him by two centuries:

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