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macquarie pine
n.
See pine.
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Pine
·noun Woe; torment; pain.
II. Pine ·v To grieve or mourn for.
III. Pine ·noun The wood of the pine...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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pine
n.
The Pines are widely distributedin Australasia, and include some of the noblest species.The name...
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pine
it's pine, q. pein, it's difficult. N.
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pine
A genus of lofty coniferous trees, abounding in temperate climates, and valuable for its timber and ...
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Port
·noun A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
II. Port...
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port
An old Anglo-Saxon word still in full use. It strictly means a place of resort for vessels, adjacent...
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Amboyna pine
·add. ·- The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas.
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Chilean pine
·add. ·- ·same·as Monkey-puzzle.
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Lambert pine
·- The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives,...
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Pine-clad
·adj ·Alt. of Pine-crowned.
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Pine-crowned
·adj Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.
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Slash pine
·- A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies;
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Pine tree
Heb. tidhar, mentioned along with the fir-tree in Isa. 41:19; 60:13. This is probably the cypress; o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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chestnut pine
n.
See pine.
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dundathu pine
See dundathee
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hoop-pine
n.
another name for the tree Araucaria cunninghami or Moreton-Bay Pine.See Pine.
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huon-pine
n.
a large Tasmanian evergreen tree, Dacrydium franklinii, Hook, N.O. Coniferae. Thetimber is prize...
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murrumbidgee pine
n.
See pine.
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prickly pine
n.
See pine.
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scrub-pine
n.
See pine.
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pine barrens
A term applied to level, sandy tracts, covered with pine-trees, in the Southern.States.--Worcester.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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pitch-pine
♦ Pinus resinosa, commonly called Norway or red pine. (See pine.)
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red pine
♦ Pinus rubra, the red spruce; the timber of which is preferred throughout the United States for yar...
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Pine Tree
Heb. tidhar . (Isaiah 41:19; 60:13) What tree is intended is not certain: but the rendering "pine," ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Half-port
·noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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Port-royalist
·noun One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it wa...
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Three-port
·add. ·adj Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine i...
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Two-port
·add. ·adj Having two ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in ...
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bridle-port
A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...
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cinque-port
A kind of fishing-net, having five entrances.
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closed port
One interdicted.
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convenient port
A general law-term in cases of capture, within a certain latitude of discretion; a place where a ves...
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free port
Ports open to all comers free of entry-dues, as places of call, not delivery.
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helm-port
The round hole or cavity in a ship's counter, through which the head of the rudder passes into the t...
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light-port
A scuttle made for showing a light through. Also, a port in timber ships kept open until brought dee...
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port arms!
The military word of command to bring the fire-lock across the front of the body, muzzle slanting up...
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port-bars
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...
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port-charges
, or harbour-dues.
Charges levied on vessels resorting to a port.
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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...
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port-flange
In ship-carpentry, is a batten of wood fixed on the ship's side over a port, to prevent water or dir...
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port-glaive
A sword-bearer.
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port-last
, or portoise.
Synonymous with gunwale.
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port-men
A name in old times for the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports; the burgesses of Ipswich are also so ca...
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port-mote
A court held in haven towns or ports.
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port-nails
These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...
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port-pendants
Ropes spliced into rings on the outside of the port-lids, and rove through leaden pipes in the ship'...
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port-piece
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets.
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port-reeve
A magistrate of certain sea-port towns in olden times.
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port-ropes
Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended.
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port-sale
A public sale of fish on its arrival in the harbour.
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port-sashes
Half-ports fitted with glass for the admission of light into cabins.
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port-shackles
The rings to the ports.
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port-sills
In ship-building, pieces of timber put horizontally between the framing to form the top and bottom o...
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port-tackles
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
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raft-port
A large square hole, framed and cut through the buttocks of some ships, immediately under the counte...
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sally-port
An opening cut in the glacis of a place to afford free egress to the troops in case of a sortie. Als...
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sea-port
A haven near the sea, not situated up a river.
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macquarie harbour vine
See grape, macquarie harbour
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grape, macquarie harbour
or Macquarie Harbour Vine (q.v.), n.
name given to the climbing shrub Muehlenbeckia adpressra, Meis...
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macquarie harbour grape
or Macquarie Harbour Vine, n.
the Tasmanian name for Muhlenbeckiaadpressa, Meissn. N.O. Polygonacea...
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vine, macquarie harbour
or Macquarie Harbour Grape
(q.v.). Same as Native Ivy. See Ivy.
1891. `Chambers' Encyclopaedia,' s...
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Pine-tree State
·add. ·- Maine;
— a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.
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Pine Apple Court
Opposite Crab Court and Woolsack Alley. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-Boyle, 1799)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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celery-topped pine
. n.
See pine.
The tree is so called from the appearance of the upper part of thebranchlets, which...
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king william pine
n.
a Tasmanian tree.See cedar.
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moreton-bay pine
n.
See pine.
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Norfolk Island Pine
n. See pine.
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oyster-bay pine
n.
See pine.
1857. `Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of VanDiemen's Land,' vol. i. p. 1...
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Port-Arthur Plum
See plum, native.
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Port-Jackson Fig
n. See fig-tree.
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Port-Jackson Shark
Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder.
1882. Rev. J....
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Port-Jackson Thrush
n.
the best known birdamong the Australian Shrike-thrushes (q.v.), Colluricincla harmonica, Lath.; ...
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port egmont fowls
See egmont
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hard-a-port!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...
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helm-port transom
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...
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port-piece chamber
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech.
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bar of a port
or bar of a harbour
An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...
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captain of the port
The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...
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pushing for a port
Carrying all sail to arrive quickly.
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put into port, to
To enter an intermediate or any port in the course of a voyage, usually from stress of weather.
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riding a port-last
With lower yards on the gunwales.
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running-down the port
A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...
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Port of London Authority's Warehouses
At the northern boundary of Portsoken Ward and extending into Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directo...
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any port in a storm
signifies contentment with whatever may betide.
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sole of a gun-port
The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill.
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