Pine

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Low Dutch, Pyn Appel, and in English, Pine-apple, clog, and cones. "

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  • Low Dutch, Pyn Appel, and in English, Pine-apple, clog, and cones. " —  The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
  • John Pine, a man of good scholarship, good skill with his burin, did "Tapestries of the House of Lords," and other things of a celebrated nature, famous at home and abroad: but his peculiar feat, which had commended him at Reinsberg, was an Edition of HORACE: exquisite old FLACCUS brought to perfection, as it were; all done with vignettes, classical borderings, symbolic marginal ornaments, in fine taste and accuracy, the Text itself engraved; all by the exquisite burin of Pine. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • California Pine is the trade name for pinus ponderosa or western yellow pine from certain regions where conditions of growth have so modified the nature of the wood that it is more like white pine than it is like its botanical brothers that grow elsewhere. —  The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan
  • The Pine, the Cedar, yea, and Daphne's Tree —  Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
  • "John Pine, the celebrated English Engraver"? —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
 

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