Tre*dille" (?), n. A game at cards for three.
Tree (tr), n. [OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. treó, treów, tree, wood; akin
to OFries. tr, OS. treo, trio, Icel. tr, Dan. træ, Sw. trä, träd, Goth.
triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dry^s a tree,
oak, do`ry a beam, spear shaft, spear, Skr. dru tree, wood, dru wood.
√63, 241. Cf. Dryad, Germander, Tar, n., Trough.]
1. (Bot.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over
twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
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.
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.
3. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; — used in
composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree,
whiffletree, and the like.