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To surmount as a timber does. [Obs.]

Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange.

The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.

The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

A small tree. [Eng.]

A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.

Work made of timbers.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.

The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.

The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

ument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

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

the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their f…

or nearer might the dogs attain. Sir W. Scott. To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber. Cowper. Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this. J. R. Green.

f iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with…

A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks." Tubs hanging in the balks. Chaucer.

rial navigation. -- Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.