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PINE, n. [L. pinus.] A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the United States, are the white pine, Pinus strobus,the prince of our forests; the yellow pine, Pinus resinosa; and the pitch pine, Pinus rigida. The other species of this genus are called by other names, a fir,hemlock, larch, spruce, &c.

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, v.t. To wear out; to make to languish.

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, n. Woe; want; penury; misery.

[This is obsolete. See Pain.]



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PINE, n. [L. pinus.] A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the United States, are the white pine, Pinus strobus,the prince of our forests; the yellow pine, Pinus resinosa; and the pitch pine, Pinus rigida. The other species of this genus are called by other names, a fir,hemlock, larch, spruce, &c.

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, v.t. To wear out; to make to languish.

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, n. Woe; want; penury; misery.

[This is obsolete. See Pain.]

PINE, n.1 [Fr. pin; Sp. and It. pino, L. pinus; Sax. pinn-treow, pin-tree. D. pynboom, W. pin-bren, pin-tree, and pin-gwyz, pin-wood. These words indicate that this name is from the leaves of the pine, which resemble pins. But the Welsh has also feinid-wyz, from feinid, a rising to a point, from fain, a cone, and gwyz, wood. The latter name is from the cones.]

A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the United States, are the white pine, Pinus strobus, the prince of our forests; the yellow pine, Pinus resinosa; and the pitch pine, Pinus rigida.


PINE, n.2 [Sax. pin, D. pyn, pain; Gr. πενομαι, πονος.]

Woe; want; penury; misery. – Spenser. [This is obsolete. See Pain.]


PINE, v.i. [Sax. pinan, to pain or torture, and to pine or languish. This verb in the sense of pain, is found in the other Teutonic dialects, but not in the sense of languishing. The latter sense is found in the Gr. πειναω, πενω. See Ar. فَنَّfanna, Class Bn, No. 22, and فَنِي, No. 25, and أفَنَ, No. 29.]

  1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away under any distress or 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. xxiv.
  2. To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; usually followed by for. Unknowing that she pin'd for your return. – Dryden.

PINE, v.t.

  1. To wear out; to make to languish. Where shivering cold and sickness pines the climes. – Shak. Beroe pined with pain. – Dryden.
  2. To grieve for; to bemoan in silence. Abashed the devil stood … / Virtue in her own shape how lovely, saw, / And pined his loss. – Milton. [In the transitive sense this verb is now seldom used, and this use is improper, except by ellipsis.]

Pine
  1. Woe; torment; pain.

    [Obs.] "Pyne of hell." Chaucer.
  2. 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.

  3. To suffer; to be afflicted.

    [Obs.]
  4. Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.

    * There are about twenty-eight species in the United States, of which the white pine (P. Strobus), the Georgia pine (P. australis), the red pine (P. resinosa), and the great West Coast sugar pine (P. 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.

    The spruces, firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other genera.

  5. To grieve or mourn for.

    [R.] Milton.
  6. 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.
  7. The wood of the pine tree.
  8. To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.

    For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. Shak.

    Syn. -- To languish; droop; flag; wither; decay.

  9. 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 (Zoöl.), any beetle whose larvæ bore into pine trees. -- Pine finch. (Zoöl.) See Pinefinch, in the Vocabulary. -- Pine grosbeak (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a small, very active, mottled gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), native of the Middle States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and alligator. -- Pine marten. (Zoöl.) (a) A European weasel (Mustela martes), called also sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten. (b) The American sable. See Sable. -- Pine moth (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (P. 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. -- Pine weevil (Zoöl.), 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.

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Pine

PINE, noun [Latin pinus.] A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the United States, are the white pine Pinus strobus, the prince of our forests; the yellow pine Pinus resinosa; and the pitch pine Pinus rigida. The other species of this genus are called by other names, a fir, hemlock, larch, spruce, etc.

PINE, verb intransitive

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. Ezekiel 24:23.

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 transitive To wear out; to make to languish.

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 Woe; want; penury; misery.

[This is obsolete. See Pain.]

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