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Pine

noun

A coniferous tree. Synonyms: pine tree, true pine.

Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus.

verb

(past & past part. pined; pres. part. pining)

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present. Synonyms: ache, languish, yearn, yen. "I am pining for my lover"

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... south of France and Italy. He had inquired into the natural products of the country. There were tin mines, he found, in parts of the island, and iron in small quantities; but copper was imported from the Continent. The vegetation resembled that of France, save that he saw no beech and no spruce pine. Of more consequence were the people and the distribution of them. The Britons of the interior he conceived to be indigenous. The coast was chiefly occupied by immigrants from Belgium, as could be traced in the nomenclature of places. The country seemed thickly inhabited. The flocks and herds were ...

— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude

... was what to have with them. Their natural association with cheese was rejected because Charmian said she should be ashamed to offer Mr. Ludlow those insipid little Neufchatel things, which were made in New Jersey, anyway, and the Gruyere smelt so, and so did Camembert; and pine-apple cheese was Philistine. There was nothing for it but olives, and though olives had no savor of originality, the little crescent ones were picturesque, and if you picked them out of the bottle with the end of a brush-handle, ...

— The Coast of Bohemia • William Dean Howells

... fruit thinly, put it on dishes, and strew over it plenty of pounded sugar. Keep it in a hot closet, or very slow oven, 8 or 10 days, and turn the fruit every day until dry; then put the pieces of pine on tins, and place them in a quick oven for 10 minutes. Let them cool, and store them away in dry boxes, with paper between ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... whereon the ordnance lay was whole bodies of long pine-trees, whereof there is great plenty, laid across one on another and some little earth amongst. There were in it thirteen or fourteen great pieces of brass ordnance and a chest unbroken up, having in it the value of some two ...

— Drake's Great Armada • Walter Biggs

... one of his matches. The extinguished torch was a piece of resinous pine, and it burned up quickly, giving a flaring light and sending up a wavering stream ...

— Frank Merriwell's Pursuit - How to Win • Burt L. Standish

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