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in botany, a tree. Trees are by Linnæus classified in the seventh family of the vegetable kingdom, and are distinguished from shrubs in that their stems come up with buds on them; but this distinction holds not universally, there being rarely any buds on the large trees in India.

in mechanics, the principal part of a machine, which serves to sustain the rest; also the axis or spindle on which a machine turns, as the arbors of a crane, windmill, &c.

**ARBOR Diana**. See Chemistry, no. 198.