·noun Wood; timber.
II. Tree ·noun A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
III. Tree ·vt To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
IV. Tree ·vt To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. ·see Tree, ·noun, 3.
V. Tree ·noun Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
VI. Tree ·noun Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
VII. Tree ·noun A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. ·see Lead tree, under Lead.
VIII. Tree ·noun A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber;
— used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.