meaning of tree
1. 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. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
7. To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
8. To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n. , 3.
9. English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare 1853-1917
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