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Prune [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plum, or a dried plum.

Prune [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To dress; to prink; a ludicrous word.

Prune [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lop or cut off the superfluous branches of trees, to make them bear better fruit or grow higher, or to give them a more handsome and regular appearance.

2. To clear from any thing superfluous; to dress; to trim.

3. His royal bird

4. Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak.

Prune [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.

Prune [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.

Prune [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.

2. To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.

3. To preen; to prepare; to dress.

Pruned [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Divested of superfluous branches; trimmed.

2. Cleared of what is unsuitable or superfluous.

Pruned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Prune

Prunel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant.

Prunella [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Angina, or angina pectoris.

2. Thrush.

3. Alt. of Prunello

Prunelle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

Prunello [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A kind of stuff of which clergymen's gowns are made.

2. A kind of plum.

Prunello [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

2. A species of dried plum; prunelle.

Pruner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that prunes trees or removes what is superfluous.

Pruner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.

2. Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.