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n. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Betula, native to the Northern Hemisphere and having unisexual flowers in catkins, alternate, simple, toothed leaves, and bark that often peels in thin papery layers.

n. The hard, close-grained wood of any of these trees, used especially in furniture, interior finishes, and plywood.

n. A rod from a birch, used to administer a whipping.

v. To whip with or as if with a birch.

n. any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the northern hemisphere.

n. a hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.

n. a stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.

v. to punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

v. to punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

n. A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (Betula alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (Betula papyracea); the yellow birch (Betula lutea); the black or cherry birch (Betula lenta).

n. The wood or timber of the birch.

n. A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.

n. A birch-bark canoe.

adj. Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.

v. To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

n. A tree or shrub belonging to the genus Betula (which see).

n. A birch rod, or a number of birch-twigs bound together, sometimes used for punishing children.

n. A birch-bark canoe.

To beat or punish with a birch rod; flog.

n. In New Zealand, a name of any one of several species of Nothofagus.

n. Same as white birch .

n. Same as cañon- birch.

n. The Atlantic coast birch, B. populifolia.

n. The paper-or canoe-birch, B. papyrifera.

n. Nothofagus Solandri, a beautiful evergreen tree 100 feet high: so called from the color of the bark.

n. a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

adj. consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

n. hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

v. whip with a birch twig

n. any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

"But the meanest thing that I ever heard of his doing, was this: In these same woods -- the woods where the huckleberries and hazel nuts grew -- there were great multitudes of birch trees, of different species and among the rest, some of that species which goes by the name, among children, of _black birch_."

woody   

birched    birches    birching   

switch    wood    strap    welt    slash    trounce    flog    lather    lash    whip   

gray birch    old field-birch    moor-birch    gumbo-limbo    white birch    black birch    bog birch    west indian birch    water-birch    indian paper-birch   

birched    birching    birchen    birch wood   

birchen    flog   

Church    church    lurch    perch    research    search   

willow    maple    cedar    hickory    sycamore    evergreen    pine    larch    juniper    chestnut