Definition of oak

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Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

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Cloak :: Cloak (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal..
Mantle :: Mantle (v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise..
Sipe :: Sipe (v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
Soaker :: Soaker (n.) A hard drinker.
Yeara :: Yeara (n.) The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a..
Fatidical :: Fatidical (a.) Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak..
Valonia :: Valonia (n.) The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers..
Chaparral :: Chaparral (n.) A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
Glans :: Glans (n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
Wet :: Wet (superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table..
Nutgall :: Nutgall (n.) A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut..
Quercus :: Quercus (n.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.
Soak :: Soak (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter..
Ret :: Ret (v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment..
Buck :: Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Inwrap :: Inwrap (v. t.) To cover by wrapping; to involve; to infold; as, to inwrap in a cloak, in smoke, etc..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak..
Steep :: Steep (v. i.) To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping..
Oaken :: Oaken (a.) Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks.
Baigne :: Baigne (v. i.) To soak or drench.
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