treealoe (tre al"o)

An aloe-plant, Aloë di composition, but sometimes used separately in connection with an explanatory context. For those used in vehicles, see axletree, doubletree, swingletree, whiffletree, etc.; for those in ships, che -tree, cro tree, trestletree, etc.; for others, boot - tree, saddletree, etc. gilded. They vse sadles made of wood & sinewes, with the tree Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 314. All gloves are better and more shapely if dried on glove trees or wooden hands. Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 123. Abba-tree, species of the fig in western Africa, to which attention has recently been called as sources of india-rub stem serves as a quiver for poisoned arrows, whence it is also called quiver -tree. tree-asp (tre'asp), n. A venomous serpent of the family Dendraspididæ. See cut under Den draspis.