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Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over
twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. |
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Something constructed in the form of, or considered as
resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a
genealogical tree. |
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A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; --
used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree,
whiffletree, and the like. |
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A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. |
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Wood; timber. |
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A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained
by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. |
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To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog
trees a squirrel. |
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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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