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eenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

See Capper, a plant, 2.

A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.

A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

See under Crab.

Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

A doorpost. [Obs.] "As dead as a doretree." Piers Plowman.

The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.

A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entrée of a house.

. See Fir.

A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott.

See Gauntree.

Any tree or shrub of the genus Genipa.

A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.

An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks de…

A hatstand.

The wild dog-rose.