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(1):

(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

(2):

(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

(5):

(n.) Wood; timber.

(6):

(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

(7):

(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

(8):

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tree'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tree.html. 1828.
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