Pine

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  • intransitive verb. To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire.
  • intransitive verb. To wither or waste away from longing or grief.
  • intransitive verb. To grieve or mourn for.
  • noun. Intense longing or grief.
  • noun. Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Pinus, having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar.
  • noun. Any of various other coniferous trees, such as the Norfolk Island pine.
  • noun. The wood of any of these trees.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The black-headed gull, Chroïcocephalus ridibundus. Also pinemaw.
  • To pain; afflict; torture; starve; wear out or consume, as with sickness, pain, or grief.
  • To grieve for; bemoan; bewail.
  • To be consumed with grief or longing; grow thin or waste away with pain, sorrow, or longing; languish: often with away: as, she pined away and died.
  • To long; languish with longing desire: usually with for before the object of desire.
  • To shrink or “render,” as fish in the process of curing.
  • noun. Same as foxtail-pine (which see, under pine).
  • noun. See black pine .
  • noun. Same as stone-pine in any of the senses.
  • noun. Same as table-mountain pine (which see, under pine).
  • noun. In New South Wales, a variety of Callitris robusta. See black pine .
  • noun. A low tree, Pinus contorta, ranging along the Pacific coast from Alaska to northern California and to some extent inland. It has either a compact round head or an open picturesque one which has given rise to the name twisted pine. It seems to grade into the lodge-pole pine. The saccharine cambium is eaten by the Indians. Also coast scrub-pine.
  • noun. Same as slash-pine. Also she pitch-pine.
  • noun. Same as slash-pine.
  • noun. The loblolly-pine.
  • noun. In the Bahamas, a species of air-plant, Tillandsia Balbisiana. Compare wild pine , under wild.
  • noun. Pain; torment; anguish; misery; suffering; wretchedness.
  • noun. Any tree of the genus Pinus.
  • noun. One of various other coniferous trees, as the Moreton Bay pine and the Oregon pine (see below); also, one of a few small plants suggesting the pine. See ground-pine.
  • noun. The wood of any pine-tree.
  • noun. The pineapple.
  • noun. Same as Austrian pine.
  • noun. Same as bull-pine .
  • noun. Same as miro.
  • noun. Same as digger-pine.
  • noun. Same as yellow pine .
  • noun. Same as yellow pine .
  • noun. See white pine .
  • noun. In England, the long-leafed pine, or its imported wood.
  • noun. See celery-pine.
  • noun. See Chimaphila.
  • noun. See Dacrydium.
  • noun. The Swiss stone-pine, or arolla, Pinus Cembra, a middle-sized tree with fragrant and resinous, very fine-grained soft wood, much used for carving and cabinet-work. The seeds are edible, and abound in oil. It yields a turpentine called Carpathian balsam.
  • noun. The Siberian stone-pine, Pinus Cembra, var.
  • noun. Pinus monticola, a large species of the western United States, not very common, but in Idaho an important timber-tree.
  • noun. The cedar-pine.
  • noun. The Rocky Mountain species Pinus reflexa, of Arizona, and P. flexilis, which serves for lumber in Nevada, where better is wanting.
  • noun. Same as kahikatea.
  • noun. The long-leafed pine.
  • noun. An important species, Pinus ponderosa, found in the Black Hills, and from British Columbia, through the Pacific region, to Texas and Mexico: within its range the most valuable timber-tree after the Oregon pine. It sometimes approaches 300 feet in height, but is commonly much lower, especially in the Rocky Mountains. Its heavy, hard, and strong, but not durable, timber furnishes lumber, railway-ties, etc. Also called bull-pine, silver-pine.
  • noun. Pinus Arizonica, a species of minor importance in the mountains of Arizona.
  • noun. A commercial name of the common white pine. (See also ground-pine, heavy-pine, hoop-pine, huon-pine, kauri-pine, knee-pine, loblolly-pine, and slash-pine.)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Woe; torment; pain.
  • Word Usage
    "Comparisons: The Scotch pine is apt to be confused with the _Austrian pine_ (_Pinus austriaca_), because they both have two needles to each cluster."
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    Aline  Cline  Combine  Dine  Heine  
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    ash  bough  bush  cedar  cypress  
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    pined  pines  pining