Tree
Definition of Tree
Pronunciation: trē n. | 1. | | | 1. | (Bot.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. | | 2. | Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. | | 3. | A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. | | 4. | A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. | | 5. | Wood; timber. | | 6. | (Chem.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.Tree lark | (Zool.) the tree pipit. |
Tree lobster | (Zool.) Same as Tree crab, above. |
Tree pipit | (Zool.) See under Pipit. |
Tree serpent | (Zool.) a tree snake. |
| v. t. | 1. | To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. | | 2. | 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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