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Webster 1913 Edition

Shrub

Shrub

,
Noun.
[Ar.
shirb
,
shurb
, a drink, beverage, fr.
shariba
to drink. Cf.
Sirup
,
Sherbet
.]
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

Shrub

,
Noun.
[OE.
schrob
, AS.
scrob
,
scrobb
; akin to Norw.
skrubba
the dwarf cornel tree.]
(Bot.)
A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.

Shrub

,
Verb.
T.
To lop; to prune.
[Obs.]
Anderson (1573).

Webster 1828 Edition

Shrub

SHRUB

,
Noun.
A low dwarf tree; a woody plant of a size less than a tree; or more strictly, a plant with several permanent woody stems, dividing from the bottom, more slender and lower than trees.
Gooseberries and currants are shrubs; oaks and cherries are trees. Locke.

SHRUB

,
Noun.
[L. sorbeo.] A liquor composed of acid and sugar, with spirir to preserve it; usually the acid of lemons.

SHRUB

,
Verb.
T.
To clear of shrubs.

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