Word Meanings - APPLE-JACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Apple brandy.
Related words: (words related to APPLE-JACK)
- APPLE
Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple , balsam apple, egg apple, oak - BRANDYWINE
Brandy. Wiseman. - APPLE-JOHN
A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak. - APPLE-SQUIRE
A pimp; a kept gallant. Beau. & Fl. - BRANDY
A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. - APPLE PIE
A pie made of apples with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. - APPLE-FACED
Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens. - APPLE-JACK
Apple brandy. - PINEAPPLE
A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American. - ENGRAPPLE
To grapple. - THRAPPLE
Windpipe; throttle. - INGRAPPLE
To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton. - CHESS-APPLE
The wild service of Europe . - CRAPPLE
A claw. - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - OTAHEITE APPLE
The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree , also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples. A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree which bears - SCAPPLE
To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt. - VI-APPLE
See APPLE - ADAM'S APPLE
See ADAM - STRAPPLE
To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman. - GRAPPLEMENT
A grappling; close fight or embrace. Spenser. - GRAPPLE
1. To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist. 2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly. The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops - DAPPLE
One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.