Word Meanings - ARBORICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

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• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• TIMBERHEAD
  The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
• TIMBERLING
  A small tree.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• TIMBERED
  1. Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange. 2. Built; formed; contrived. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Massive, like timber. His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser. 4. Covered
• TIMBERING
  The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.
• CULTIVATION
  1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state
• TIMBERWORK
  Work made of timbers.
• CHIEFLY
  1. In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton. 2. For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• TOP-TIMBERS
  The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.
• CROSSTREES
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
• INCULTIVATION
  Want of cultivation. Berington.
• HALF-TIMBERED
  Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.