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A tree of the genus Fagus.

The beech.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

The nut of the beech tree.

Of or relating to beeches.

The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.

ngles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.

ower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. [R.] "Basilar instincts." H. W. Beecher.

The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.

A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar. Watts.

rought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [Poetic] A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.

Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden. Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.

iquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

ols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.

lso called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech. Hop hornbeam. (Bot.) See under Hop.

found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech.

s Mustela, closely allied to the sable. Among the more important species are the European beech, or stone, marten (Mustela foina); the pine marten (M. martes); and the American marten, or sable (M. Americana), which some zoölogists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.

The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat. Chapman. Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast. South.