Obs. [See the separate senses.]

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  1.  Growth of trees or shrubs; timber, wood, coppice. [a. OF. arboirie, ‘pousse d’arbres’ Godef.]

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1366.  Maundev., xxiv. 256. In that Contree is but Lytille Arberye.

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c. 1440.  Morte Arth., 3245. Enhorilde with arborye and alkyns trees.

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  2.  = ARBOUR. [An assimilation of that to words in -ORY, or -RY. Cf. also It. arborata ‘an arbor or bowre of boughs or trees’ (Florio, 1598), of which the Fr. equivalent would be arborée.]

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1600.  Hakluyt, Voy. (1810), III. 335. Their houses are made of round poles … as is used in many arbories in our gardens.

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1695.  Kennett, Par. Antiq., ix. 610. Sheds or Arbories, made up with branches and boughs of trees.

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  3.  A place where trees are cultivated; an orchard. [App. f. L. arbor after words like rectory, armory.]

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1792.  D. Lloyd, Voy. Life, V. 96.

        Of yon celestial arbory, where fruits
Ambrosial blush unfading tints.

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