tree

Definitions

1. 1noun

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

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

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

4. 4noun

   A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

5. 5noun

   Wood; timber.

6. 6noun

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

7. 7transitive verb

   To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

8. 8transitive verb

   To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree., 3.

9. 9noun

   English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

10. 10noun

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

11. 11noun

    a figure that branches from a single root

    "genealogical tree"

12. 12verb

    stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

    Synonyms

    shoetree
13. 13verb

    chase an animal up a tree

    "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"

    "her dog likes to tree squirrels"

14. 14verb

    plant with trees

    "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"

15. 15verb

    force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

    Synonyms

    corner