(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.
