Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree.
1 The birchen canoes were pierced, and in the excitement many were capsized.
2 She took out her chest of simples, a quaintly-made birchen - bark receptacle.
3 A huge head-dress of birchen twigs adds to his apparent stature.
4 We emerged from the birchen grove upon the river, below a brilliant cascading rapid.
5 But the fragrant birchen logs sputtered and glowed, darting out playful tongues of flame.
6 They subsist on berries and birchen - buds -dainty fare, is it not?
7 The downpour flogged the horse-trough as with birchen rods.
8 To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood.
9 After another eight days the same thing happened, and this time Boots stuck out his birchen pin.
10 Oh, my poor stockings of birchen - bark lace!
11 When he had reached the shore he went up into a birchen copse, and made the lions lie quiet.
12 Yet these fair curves, and liberal reaches, and bright rapids of the birchen - bowered river were only solitary, not lonely.
13 And all this time his knee was bleeding, so that the blood was enough to fill seven huge birchen pots.
14 It remembers the yellow-moccasined Sokokis as they issued from the Indian Cellar and carried their birchen canoes along the wooded shore.
15 It was now about the middle of June, and some fifty birchen canoes have just been launched upon the waters of Green Bay.
16 The sap was collected by the women in tin or birchen buckets and poured into the canoes, from which the kettles were kept filled.
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