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the two parts together. -- Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. -- Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle. -- Forcing…

Entirely dry; withered. [Obs.] "A tree fordry." Chaucer.

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

A forest tree. [R.] Evelyn.

on occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

fume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.

A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you Shak.

In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously. Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat. Gen. ii. 16. Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8. Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Milton. Freely we serve Because we freely love. Milton.

e peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome. Fringe tree (Bot.), a small tree (Chionanthus Virginica), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow- white flowers, with long pendulous petals.

ion; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. And then suddenly front the changed reality. J. Morley.

Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton.

fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. The great fruitfulness of…

Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak.

A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.