Definition: pine

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

pine
     n 1: a coniferous tree [syn: pine tree, true pine]
     2: straight-grained durable and often resinous white to
        yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus
        Pinus
     v : have a yen for [syn: long, ache, yearn, yen, languish]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pine \Pine\, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. poena penalty. See Pain.]
   Woe; torment; pain. [Obs.] ``Pyne of hell.'' --Chaucer.

Pine \Pine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pined; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Pining.] [AS. p[=i]nan to torment, fr. p[=i]n torment. See
   1st Pine, Pain, n. & v.]
   1. To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
      [Obs.] --Chaucer. Shak.

            That people that pyned him to death.  --Piers
                                                  Plowman.

            One is pined in prison, another tortured on the
            rack.                                 --Bp. Hall.

   2. To grieve or mourn for. [R.] --Milton.

Pine \Pine\, v. i.
   1. To suffer; to be afflicted. [Obs.]

   2. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any
      distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with
      away. ``The roses wither and the lilies pine.'' --Tickell.

   3. To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for
      something; -- usually followed by for.

            For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. --Shak.

   Syn: To languish; droop; flag; wither; decay.

Pine \Pine\, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.]
   1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See
      Pinus.

   Note: There are about twenty-eight species in the United
         States, of which the white pine (P. Strobus), the
         Georgia pine (P. australis), the red pine (P.
         resinosa), and the great West Coast sugar pine (P.
         Lambertiana) are among the most valuable. The Scotch
         pine or fir, also called Norway or Riga pine
         (Pinus sylvestris), is the only British species. The
         nut pine is any pine tree, or species of pine, which
         bears large edible seeds. See Pinon. The spruces,
         firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly
         considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other
         genera.

   2. The wood of the pine tree.

   3. A pineapple.

   Ground pine. (Bot.) See under Ground.

   Norfolk Island pine (Bot.), a beautiful coniferous tree,
      the Araucaria excelsa.

   Pine barren, a tract of infertile land which is covered
      with pines. [Southern U.S.]

   Pine borer (Zo["o]l.), any beetle whose larv[ae] bore into
      pine trees.

   Pine finch. (Zo["o]l.) See Pinefinch, in the Vocabulary.
      

   Pine grosbeak (Zo["o]l.), a large grosbeak (Pinicola
      enucleator), which inhabits the northern parts of both
      hemispheres. The adult male is more or less tinged with
      red.

   Pine lizard (Zo["o]l.), a small, very active, mottled gray
      lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), native of the Middle
      States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and
      alligator.

   Pine marten. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) A European weasel (Mustela martes), called also
          sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten.
      (b) The American sable. See Sable.

   Pine moth (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
      tortricid moths of the genus Retinia, whose larv[ae]
      burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often
      doing great damage.

   Pine mouse (Zo["o]l.), an American wild mouse (Arvicola
      pinetorum), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine
      forests.

   Pine needle (Bot.), one of the slender needle-shaped leaves
      of a pine tree. See Pinus.

   Pine-needle wool. See Pine wool (below).

   Pine oil, an oil resembling turpentine, obtained from fir
      and pine trees, and used in making varnishes and colors.
      

   Pine snake (Zo["o]l.), a large harmless North American
      snake (Pituophis melanoleucus). It is whitish, covered
      with brown blotches having black margins. Called also
      bull snake. The Western pine snake (P. Sayi) is
      chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange.

   Pine tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine.

   Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the
      seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a
      figure of a pine tree.

   Pine weevil (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
      weevils whose larv[ae] bore in the wood of pine trees.
      Several species are known in both Europe and America,
      belonging to the genera Pissodes, Hylobius, etc.

   Pine wool, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming
      them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the
      Southern United States, and has many uses in the economic
      arts; -- called also pine-needle wool, and pine-wood
      wool.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)

Pine

   Program for Internet News & Email.  A tool for reading,
   sending, and managing electronic messages.  It was designed
   specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be
   tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.
   Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC 822,
   SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and runs under Unix and
   MS-DOS.

   The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful
   limitation of features, one-character mnemonic commands,
   always-present command menus, immediate user feedback, and
   high tolerance for user mistakes.  It is intended that Pine
   can be learned by exploration rather than reading manuals.
   Feedback from the University of Washington community and a
   growing number of Internet sites has been encouraging.

   Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available
   as a separate stand-alone program.  Pico is a very simple and
   easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification,
   cut/paste, and a spelling checker.

   Pine features on-line help; a message index showing a message
   summary which includes the status, sender, size, date and
   subject of messages; commands to view and process messages; a
   message composer with easy-to-use editor and spelling checker;
   an address book for saving long complex addresses and personal
   distribution lists under a nickname; message attachments via
   Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions; folder management
   commands for creating, deleting, listing, or renaming message
   folders; access to remote message folders and archives via the
   Interactive Mail Access Protocol as defined in RFC 1176;
   access to Usenet news via NNTP or IMAP.

   Pine, Pico and UW's IMAP server are copyrighted but
   freely available.

   Unix Pine runs on Ultrix, AIX, SunOS, SVR4 and
   PTX.  PC-Pine is available for Packet Driver, Novell
   LWP, FTP PC/TCP and Sun PC/NFS.  A Microsoft
   Windows/WinSock version is planned, as are extensions for
   off-line use.

   Pine was originally based on Elm but has evolved much since
   ("Pine Is No-longer Elm").  Pine is the work of Mike Seibel,
   Mark Crispin, Steve Hubert, Sheryl Erez, David Miller and
   Laurence Lundblade (now at Virginia Tech) at the University of
   Washington Office of Computing and Communications.

   ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/pine.tar.Z.
   telnet://demo.cac.washington.edu/ (login as "pinedemo").

   E-mail: <<a href="mailto:pine@cac.washington.edu">pine@cac.washington.edu>,
   <pine-info-request@cac.washington.edu>,
   <pine-announce-request@cac.washington.edu>.

   (21 Sep 93)

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001

PINE
        Program for Internet News and Email / PINE Is No longer ELM

Source: U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Pine, CO
  Zip code(s): 80470