Word Meanings - COSTERMONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.

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• FRUIT
  The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever
• FRUITAGE
  1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• FRUITIVE
  Eujoying; possessing. Boyle.
• FRUITION
  Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.
• FRUITLESS
  1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless
• 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
• FRUITERESS
  A woman who sells fruit.
• 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.
• FRUITY
  Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.
• FRUITER
  A ship for carrying fruit.
• FRUITERY
  1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips. 2. A repository for fruit. Johnson.
• 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.
• SELLER
  One who sells. Chaucer.
• APPLE-FACED
  Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.
• FRUITERER
  One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
• FRUITFUL
  Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish
• APPLE-JACK
  Apple brandy.
• FRUITING
  Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
• 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.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• THRAPPLE
  Windpipe; throttle.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• INGRAPPLE
  To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
• CHESS-APPLE
  The wild service of Europe .
• CRAPPLE
  A claw.
• GRAPE FRUIT
  The shaddock.
• RUMSELLER
  One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• OVERFRUITFUL
  Too fruitful.