Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
oak .
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Examples
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The dark juice of it, like the sap of a mountain-oak, she had gathered in a
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Here towered a host of stately pines; and there, the lofty beeches, birches, and mountain-oak, bending over the flood, interwove their giant arms; forming an arch so impenetrable, that while the sun brightened the tops of the mountains, all beneath lay in darkest midnight.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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If the season permitted them to add to this a hatful of berries that grew on the sunny side of the hill, or acorns from the mountain-oak, or nuts from the hickory-tree, or, more delicious still, plums, persimmons, and pawpaws, that grew in the more open parts of the woods, they made of it a dainty feast indeed.
The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief Morrison Heady 1872
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Here towered a host of stately pines; and there the lofty beeches, birches, and mountain-oak, bending over the flood, interwove their giant arms; forming an arch so impenetrable, that while the sun brightened the tops of the mountains, all beneath lay in deepest midnight.
The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813
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He fell like a mountain-oak covered over with glittering frost: He shone like a rock on the plain.
Fragments of Ancient Poetry James MacPherson 1766
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