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Beechen

Beechen \Beech"en\, a. [AS. b?cen.] Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. ``Plain beechen vessels.''
--Dryden.

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beechen

a. Consisting or made of the wood or bark of the beech.

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beechen

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

Usage examples of "beechen".

They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.

Seek thou the trail of the Aliens of the Cities of the South, And thou shalt find it leading o'er the heaths to the beechen-wood, And thence to the stony places where the foxes find their food.

Thus then they waited, and there was more than a glimmer of light even under the beechen leaves, and the eastern sky was yellowing to sunrise.

And while he busy was, this fiendly wretch, This false canon (the foule fiend him fetch), Out of his bosom took a beechen coal, In which full subtifly was made a hole, And therein put was of silver limaile* *filings An ounce, and stopped was withoute fail The hole with wax, to keep the limaile in.

And whenne that this canon's beechen coal Was burnt, all the limaile out of the hole Into the crosselet anon fell down.

And when this treacherous canon's beechen coal Was burnt, then all the filings from the hole Into the crucible fell down anon.

They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.

And call up the days of old, when the Roman eagle spread its wings in the place of that beechen foliage.

And around The sky was in garlands of cloud, Winning scents from unnumbered new births, Pointed buds, where the woods were browned By a mouldered beechen shroud.