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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Examples
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Some two hours after the tapping is done the flow entirely ceases and the tree must be tapped anew to secure a fresh flow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nay, I am too old a tree to be transplanted. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Good fruit, Sir Knight, said the yeoman, will sometimes grow on a sorry tree; and evil times are not always productive of evil alone and unmixed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The beam was straight, long, and heavy, and that and the mould generally hewed from a tree. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- 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.
- If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- 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.
- The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Darnay presented himself while they were sitting under the plane-tree, but he was only One. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Margaret went along the walk under the pear-tree wall. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Reglarly up a tree, by jingo! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The forest of oak trees on the mountain beyond the town was gone. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I thank you for your ingenious paper in favour of the trees. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The trees of the forest attracted my deep admiration as I proceeded toward the sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I turned from the group of trees and the merrie companie in its shade. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Bred in the country, he had attentively observed the effect of lightning on trees and cattle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There, within easy reach of the rubber trees, they set up their camp and the actual work of harvesting the rubber crop begins. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She is like a mountain and the boy and the girl are like young trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They looked, and saw a glitter through the trees. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have made these few remarks on trees simply to call attention to the subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There were trees along both sides of the road and through the right line of trees I saw the river, the water clear, fast and shallow. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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