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Martin (?), n. (Stone Working) [Etymol. uncertain.] A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.

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Martin, n. [F. martin, from the proper name Martin.  Cf. Martlet.] (Zool.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows. [Written also marten.]

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☞ The American purple martin, or bee martin (Progne subis or Progne purpurea), and the European house martin, or window martin (Hirundo urbica or Chelidon urbica), are the best known species.

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Bank martin. (a) The bank swallow. See under Bank. (b) The fairy martin. See under Fairy. -- Bee martin. (a) The purple martin. (b) The kingbird. -- Sand martin, the bank swallow.

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Tree (trē), n. [OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. treó, treów, tree, wood; akin to OFries. trē, OS. treo, trio, Icel. trē, Dan. trae, Sw. trä, träd, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. δρῦς a tree, oak, δόρυ a beam, spear shaft, spear, Skr. dru tree, wood, dāru wood. √63, 241.  Cf. Dryad, Germander, Tar, n., Trough.]

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1. (Bot.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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☞ The kind of tree referred to, in any particular case, is often indicated by a modifying word; as forest tree, fruit tree, palm tree, apple tree, pear tree, etc.

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2. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, “a genealogical tree”.

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3. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

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4. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

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[Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree. Acts x. 39.

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5. Wood; timber. [Obs.]  Chaucer.

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In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth. Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 20).

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6. (Chem.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

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Tree bear (Zool.), the raccoon. [Local, U. S.] -- Tree beetle (Zool.) any one of numerous species of beetles which feed on the leaves of trees and shrubs, as the May beetles, the rose beetle, the rose chafer, and the goldsmith beetle. -- Tree bug (Zool.), any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects which live upon, and suck the sap of, trees and shrubs. They belong to Arma, Pentatoma, Rhaphigaster, and allied genera. -- Tree cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure (Paradoxurus musang). -- Tree clover (Bot.), a tall kind of melilot (Melilotus alba). See Melilot. -- Tree crab (Zool.), the purse crab. See under Purse. -- Tree creeper (Zool.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to Certhia, Climacteris, and allied genera. See Creeper, 3. -- Tree cricket (Zool.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket (Ecanthus nivœus) which is noted for its loud stridulation; -- called also white cricket. -- Tree crow (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World crows belonging to Crypsirhina

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