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A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. [Obs.] If a be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland. Point d'appui. Etym: [F., a point of support.] (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advant…

fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

hes . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock.

One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.

Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley.

Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees. "An arboreal walk." Pollok.

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

The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

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.

Relating to trees. [Obs.]

Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds.

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

One who cultivates trees.