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Arbor

noun

Tree (as opposed to shrub).

Any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts. Synonyms: mandrel, mandril, spindle.

A framework that supports climbing plants. Synonyms: arbour, bower, pergola.

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"Arbor" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Western arbor-vitae [24] (Thuja gigantea) grows to a size truly gigantic on low rich ground. Specimens ten feet in diameter and a hundred and forty feet high are not at all rare. Some that I have heard of are said to be fifteen and even eighteen feet thick. Clad in rich, ...

— Steep Trails • John Muir

... cheerfully with our friends, notwithstanding the grave conversation in the arbor. The mourning veil was laid away in a drawer along with many of its brilliant companions, and with it the thoughts it had suggested; and the merry laugh ringing from the half-open parlor-door showed ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... stile, which give the lawn, and serpentine walks that surround them, a very pastoral appearance. The eating-room is particularly well fancied, being covered within, and so painted as to produce a good idea of a close arbor; the several windows, which are pierced through the sides, have such forms, as the fantastic turn of the bodies of the painted trees admit of; and the building is in a manner surrounded with natural trees; the ...

— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse

... in the region of the sun were carefully studied, sections of the sky about the sun were assigned to different observers, who should attend to nothing but to look for a possible planet. It is now conceded that Professor Watson, of Ann Arbor, actually saw the ...

— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... causes the beginning branches to thicken and elongate into trees and shrubs rooted on the mercury. For other circumstances concerning this beautiful experiment see Mr. Keir's Chemical Dictionary, art. Arbor Dianae; a work perhaps of greater utility to mankind than the lost Alexandrian Library; the continuation of which is so eagerly expected by all, who are occupied in the arts, or ...

— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin

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