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A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. McElrath.

the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done. The oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill. Spenser. It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters. Bacon. Shall I think the worls was made for one, And men are born for king…

To rub. We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. Sir W. Scott.

An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.

The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. Gray.

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained. The unwedgeable and gnarléd oak. Shak.

A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [Written also griego.]

to moan. For we . . . do groan, being burdened. 2 Cor. v. 4. He heard the groaning of the oak. Sir W. Scott.

Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.

A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.] All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.

fit for washing. See Hardness, 3.- Hard wood, wood of a solid or hard texture; as walnut, oak, ash, box, and the like, in distinction from pine, poplar, hemlock, etc.- In hard condition, in excellent condition for racing; having firm muscles;-said of race horses.

The holm oak. See 1st Holm. Holly-leaved oak (Bot.), the black scrub oak. See Scrub oak. -- Holly rose (Bot.), a West Indian shrub, with showy, yellow flowers (Turnera ulmifolia). -- Sea holly (Bot.), a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.

A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.

ters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. "He teaches boys the hornbook." Shak.

d when the skies are fair. Dryden. Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone. Swift.