a. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 treowen, triwen, trywen, 4–6 trene, treyn, 4–7 trein, treene, 5 tren, trenne, 6 treine, treyne, (treing, tryen, 7 tryne), 4– treen. [OE. tréowen, etc., f. tréow, TREE + -EN4: cf. Goth. triweins wooden.]
1. Made of ‘tree’ (TREE sb. 2); wooden.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 180. ʓetrifula on treowenum mortere.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 125. Coturnus, triwen sceo.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 12389 (Cott.). For plogh and haru … Treen beddes for to make.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, X. 361. Of hempyn rapis ledderis ma, With treyn steppis bundin.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 177. Ettynge of a tren dysshe.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, V. xviii. (S.T.S.), II. 210. Þe way þat ledis fra þe trene brig oure tiber.
1563–83. Foxe, A. & M., 259/2. Some go on treen shoes or Pattins, some bare-footed.
1749. Ann. of Banff (New Spald. Cl.), I. 129. By 2 dales [= deals] for mending Treen-mare [MARE1 2 b] for the soldiers, £1. 14s.
1888. Athenæum, 14 July, 68. A treen paten of ancient date.
† 2. Of or belonging to a tree or trees; in quot. 1670, obtained or made from trees. Obs. rare.
1340–70. Alex. & Dind., 351. Wiþ trene bowus [L. frondibus arborum] we ben on þe body keuered.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VIII. 237. A book also greet as a psawter, wiþ trene leves, i-wrete in Grew, Hebrew, and Latyn.
1545. Records of Elgin (New Spald. Cl.), I. 85. The trein corce [cross] anent the Gray freris vynd.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 39. So left her, where she now is turnd to treen mould.
1670. Evelyn, Sylva, xvi. § 7 (ed. 2), 75. That a large Tract of the World almost altogether subsist on these Treen Liquors; Especially, that of the Date.
