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Tree

noun

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

A figure that branches from a single root. Synonym: tree diagram.

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917). Synonym: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

verb

(past & past part. treed; pres. part. treeing)

Force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape. Synonym: corner.

Plant with trees.

Chase an animal up a tree. "Her dog likes to tree squirrels"

Stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree. Synonym: shoetree.

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"Tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... the final parting,—words that were a picture. The long friendless highway, stretching on—on—towards the remorseless city, and the doors of home opening on the desolate thoroughfare, and the old pollard-tree beside the threshold, with the ravens wheeling round it and calling to their young. He too had watched that threshold from the same desolate thoroughfare. He too had heard the cry of the ravens. Then came ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... you there was a tree grew up in the centre of the alley—a stunty, short-boughed tree, and to this Measles laid one of the double muskets, feeling for a bough to rest it on in the darkness, after listening whether there was any ...

— Begumbagh - A Tale of the Indian Mutiny • George Manville Fenn

... I heard of Mrs. Herne was, as Petulengro told me when we again met, that she had hanged herself, the girl finding her suspended from a tree. That announcement was accompanied by an unexpected challenge from my friend Jasper to fight him. He declared that as she was his relative, and I had been the cause of her destruction, there was no escape from the necessity of fighting. ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

... interview, it happened that Mr. Cuff, on a sunshiny afternoon, was in the neighbourhood of poor William Dobbin, who was lying under a tree in the playground, spelling over a favourite copy of the Arabian Nights which he had apart from the rest of the school, who were pursuing their various sports—quite lonely, and almost happy. If people would but leave children to themselves; if teachers would cease to bully ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... night, in the tree!" murmured Genevieve. "How easily you hauled us up with the vine rope! ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

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