Word Meanings - VI-APPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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- 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 - 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. - 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. - KNAPPLE
To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble.