oak (n.)
- acacia
- adamant
- ailanthus
- alder
- allspice
- almond
- apple
- apricot
- ash
- aspen
- avocado
- balsa
- balsam
- banyan
- bass
- basswood
- bay
- bayberry
- beech
- beechwood
- birch
- bone
- brick
- buckeye
- burl
- butternut
- buttonwood
- cacao
- candleberry
- cashew
- cassia
- catalpa
- cement
- cherry
- chestnut
- chinquapin
- cinnamon
- citron
- clove
- coconut
- concrete
- cork
- cypress
- diamond
- dogwood
- ebony
- elder
- elm
- eucalyptus
- fig
- fir
- flint
- frankincense
- granite
- grapefruit
- guava
- gum
- gumwood
- hawthorn
- hazel
- hemlock
- henna
- hickory
- holly
- horse
- iron
- ironwood
- juniper
- kumquat
- laburnum
- lancewood
- larch
- laurel
- lemon
- lime
- linden
- lion
- litchi
- locust
- logwood
- magnolia
- mahogany
- mango
- mangrove
- maple
- marble
- medlar
- mulberry
- nutmeg
- olive
- orange
- ox
- palm
- papaw
- papaya
- peach
- pear
- pecan
- persimmon
- pine
- pistachio
- plane
- plum
- pomegranate
- poplar
- quince
- redwood
- rock
- sandalwood
- sassafras
- senna
- sequoia
- spruce
- steel
- stone
- sumac
- sycamore
- tangerine
- teak
- walnut
- willow
- yew
oak (v.)
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!
For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake;
For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;
His hooke was such as heads the end of pole
To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole;
The hook was baited with a dragon's tale,—
And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.
The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.—
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
Hearts of oak are our ships,
Hearts of oak are our men.
While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation
of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of
Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of
the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without
the inspiration."—
That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.
Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Our ships were British oak,
And hearts of oak our men.
