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A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

The candied leaf stalks of angelica. Angelica tree, a thorny North American shrub (Aralia spinosa), called also Hercules' club.

To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

est of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

(F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. -- Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain.

n the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. Knight.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

ry slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

d; look; view. "The aspect of affairs." Macaulay. The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish. T. Burnet.