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organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. Arbuthnot. Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living. Shak.

ess; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.

Dead trees or branches; useless material.

Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. Deal tree, a fir tree. Dr. Prior.

to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud. [Obs.] Plant fruit trees in large borders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. Bacon.

.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.

od, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.

de; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [Obs.] Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. Chaucer.

To clear or strip of wood (by cutting down trees). [R.] Fuller.

Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. Gray.

-burning sulphur unconsumed. Milton. As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

ing to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.

One versed in the natural history of trees.

A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.

An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.

its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.