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string; to tune. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden. Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.

ich in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. -- Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton.

(Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.

A citron tree.

A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson.

from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the ar…

with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

ed on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

To make to dry up or wither. [Obs.] If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee. Shak.

cing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.

A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] Halliwell

An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferrous trees or plants.