pine

noun

1. 1

   Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

   The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.

   I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

   Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

   Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring. […] The increased vegetation also provides food for the pine martens, red squirrels and mountain hares that MacDonell is seeing in rising numbers, while the population of endangered birds such as crossbills and crested tits has also risen.

2. 2

   Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.

3. 3

   The wood of this tree.

4. 4

   A pineapple.

   "[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.

   Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.

5. 5

   The bench, where players sit when not playing.

   […] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.

   Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?

6. 6

   A counter or bartop.

   I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!

noun

1. 1

   archaicA painful longing.

verb

1. 1

   To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

   Why pine not I, and die in this distress?

   [T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence.

   This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.

   Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth

2. 2

   To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

   Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.

   Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk." Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords." Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?"

   Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war. Be careful what you wish for.

   Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).

3. 3

   To grieve or mourn for.

4. 4

   To inflict pain upon; to torment.

   Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.

Forms

plural

pines

past tense

pined

past participle

pined

present participle

pining

third person singular

pines