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Webster 1913 Edition
Pine
Pine
,Noun.
Woe; torment; pain.
[Obs.]
“Pyne of hell.” Chaucer.
Pine
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pined
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pining
.] 1.
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Shak.
That people that
pyned
him to death. Piers Plowman.
One is
pined
in prison, another tortured on the rack. Bp. Hall.
2.
To grieve or mourn for.
[R.]
Milton.
Pine
,Verb.
I.
1.
To suffer; to be afflicted.
[Obs.]
2.
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; – often used with away.
“The roses wither and the lilies pine.” Tickell.
3.
To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; – usually followed by for.
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet
pined
. Shakespeare
Syn. – To languish; droop; flag; wither; decay.
Pine
,Noun.
[AS.
pīn
, L. pinus
.] 1.
(Bot.)
Any tree of the coniferous genus
Pinus
. See Pinus
. ☞ There are about twenty-eight species in the
The spruces, firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other genera.United States
, of which the white pine
(Pinus Strobus
), the Georgia pine
(Pinus australis
), the red pine
(Pinus resinosa
), and the great West Coast sugar pine
(Pinus Lambertiana
) are among the most valuable. The Scotch pine
or fir
, also called Norway
or Riga pine
(Pinus sylvestris
), is the only British species. The nut pine
is any pine tree, or species of pine, which bears large edible seeds. See Pinon
.2.
The wood of the pine tree.
3.
A pineapple.
Ground pine
. (Bot.)
See under
– Ground
. Norfolk Island pine
(Bot.)
, a beautiful coniferous tree, the
– Araucaria excelsa
. Pine barren
, a tract of infertile land which is covered with pines.
[Southern U.S.]
– Pine borer
(Zool.)
, any beetle whose larvæ bore into pine trees.
– Pine finch
. (Zool.)
See
– Pinefinch
, in the Vocabulary. Pine grosbeak
(Zool.)
, a large grosbeak (
– Pinicola enucleator
), which inhabits the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is more or less tinged with red. Pine lizard
(Zool.)
, a small, very active, mottled gray lizard (
– Sceloporus undulatus
), native of the Middle States; – called also swift
, brown scorpion
, and alligator
. Pine marten
. (Zool.)
(a)
A European weasel (
Mustela martes
), called also sweet marten
, and yellow-breasted marten
. (b)
The American sable. See
– Sable
. Pine moth
(Zool.)
, any one of several species of small tortricid moths of the genus
– Retinia
, whose larvæ burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often doing great damage. Pine mouse
(Zool.)
, an American wild mouse (
– Arvicola pinetorum
), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine forests. Pine needle
(Bot.)
, one of the slender needle-shaped leaves of a pine tree. See
– Pinus
. Pine-needle wool
. See
– Pine wool
(below). Pine oil
, an oil resembling turpentine, obtained from fir and pine trees, and used in making varnishes and colors.
– Pine snake
(Zool.)
, a large harmless North American snake (
– Pituophis melanoleucus
). It is whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also bull snake
. The Western pine snake (Pituophis Sayi
) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange. Pine tree
(Bot.)
, a tree of the genus
– Pinus
; pine. Pine-tree money
, money coined in
– Massachusetts
in the seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a figure of a pine tree. The most noted variety is the pine tree shilling
. Pine weevil
(Zool.)
, any one of numerous species of weevils whose larvæ bore in the wood of pine trees. Several species are known in both
– Europe
and America
, belonging to the genera Pissodes
, Hylobius
, etc. Pine wool
, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the
Southern United States
, and has many uses in the economic arts; – called also pine-needle wool
, and pine-wood wool
.Webster 1828 Edition
Pine
PINE
,Noun.
PINE
, v.i.1.
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away under any distress of anxiety of mind; to grow lean; followed sometimes by away. Ye shall not mourn nor weep, but ye shall pine away for your iniquities. Ezek.24.
2.
To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; usually followed by for. Unknowing that she pin'd for your return.
PINE
,Verb.
T.
Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime.
Beroe pined with pain.
1.
To grieve for; to bemoan in silence. Abashed the devil stood--
Virtue in her own shape how lovely, saw,
And pined his loss.
[In the transitive sense, this verb is now seldom used, and this use is improper, except by ellipsis.]
PINE
,Noun.
[This is obsolete. See Pain.]