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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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"Pine" Quotes from Famous Books

... luxury. How movable a thing is one's standard of comfort! A two-roomed pine shanty, board walls, board floors, board ceilings, board partitions not reaching to the roof, looked to us that night like a palace. To have been entertained at Windsor Castle would not have ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... now on the last of hers, By the moon's cold shine; It is the one remaining page Out of the many shallow and sage Whereto she set her sign. Who could foresee there were to be Such letters of pain and pine Ere I should read this last of hers ...

— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy

... Joe Burn, Wot does the fits to Natur chuff— And Fogg, And Fogg, wot's blind each day in Ho'born, Saw'd his way there clear enough, Mr. Sinniwating Sparrow, In corduroys span new and nice, Druv up in his pine-apple barrow, Which he used to sell a win a slice. ...

— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer

... the weak and the diseased soon die off, leaving behind only the robust. They walk about the streets with an air of consummate pride, with their huge broad swords swung at the back, and their lances in their hands, like "a tall pine." ...

— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... time of the first sleep, when all men slumber soundly, and the night is still. The sound of strokes smitten was first noted by the temple-servants, called tlamacazque, at the hour when they go in the night to make their offering of reeds or of boughs of pine, for so was their custom, and this penance they did on the neighbouring hills, and that when the night was far spent. Whenever they heard such a sound as one makes when he splits wood with an axe (a noise that may be heard afar ...

— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang

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