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A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

See Nicker tree.

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.

A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

(i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

One of the larvæ of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.

y camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.…

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree. Bow bearer (O. Eng. Law), an under officer of the forest who looked after trespassers. -- Bow drill, a drill worked by a bow and string. -- Bow instrument (Mus.), any stringed instrument from which the tones are produced by the bow. -- Bow window…

A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwaft box (B.suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, m…

hoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

inet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Cæsalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.…

The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.