Diving right into the answers you've been eagerly awaiting...
The first two definitions are from The Random House Webster's College Dictionary (1995).
1. Small household objects, as utensils or dishes, made entirely of wood.
2. Made of wood.
Check out the Encyclopedia Britannica's interesting discussion of this word at:
From that, it seems that treen refers to specific items, and maybe not only wooden items either. So make sure that you use it appropriately, so as to avoid confusion. Especially when speaking with a specialist in antiquities of the Middle Ages.
Bleet! was the only person who responded this week, and in general his responses were pretty far off... but in the case of scandent he was closer, in that his response was more or less the exact opposite of the dictionary's definition:
SCANDENT (from Latin scandere, meaning "to climb"):
Climbing, as a plant.
Sned was a little harder to find a definition of. It wasn't in the Webster's College Dictionary at all, and a preliminary internet search yielded only minimal help:
SNED (from sneed):
To snathe.
See: snath
See what I mean? I did look up those other words, and dug a little deeper...BUT I won't share the answers with you now. I thought I'd see if, given these additional clues, any of you can come up with the answer. So your first word for next week is actually all 3 of those. I tossed a couple new ones in there, too, to keep the rest of you interested! Good luck...keep warm!
SNEED/SNATHE/SNATH
OCTONARY
IGNITRON
Use them all in a sentence if you think you can...
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