*apple*

n. [ OE. appel, eppel, AS. æppel, æpl; akin to Fries. & D. appel, OHG, aphul, aphol, G. apfel, Icel. epli, Sw. äple, Dan. æble, Gael. ubhall, W. afal, Arm. aval, Lith. obůlys, Russ. iabloko; of unknown origin. ] 1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The European crab apple is supposed to be the original kind, from which all others have sprung. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (bot.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apple is used either adjectively or in combination; as, apple paper or apple-paper, apple-shaped, apple blossom, apple dumpling, apple pudding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apple blight, an aphid which injures apple trees. See Blight, n. --
Apple borer (Zool.), a coleopterous insect (Saperda candida or Saperda bivittata), the larva of which bores into the trunk of the apple tree and pear tree. --
Apple brandy, brandy made from apples. --
Apple butter, a sauce made of apples stewed down in cider. Bartlett. --
Apple corer, an instrument for removing the cores from apples. --
Apple fly (Zool.), any dipterous insect, the larva of which burrows in apples. Apple flies belong to the genera Drosophila and Trypeta. --
Apple midge (Zool.) a small dipterous insect (Sciara mali), the larva of which bores in apples. --
Apple of the eye, the pupil. --
Apple of discord, a subject of contention and envy, so called from the mythological golden apple, inscribed “For the fairest, ” which was thrown into an assembly of the gods by Eris, the goddess of discord. It was contended for by Juno, Minerva, and Venus, and was adjudged to the latter. --
Apple of love, or
Love apple, the tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum). --
Apple of Peru, a large coarse herb (Nicandra physaloides) bearing pale blue flowers, and a bladderlike fruit inclosing a dry berry. --
Apples of Sodom, a fruit described by ancient writers as externally of fair appearance but dissolving into smoke and ashes when plucked; Dead Sea apples. The name is often given to the fruit of Solanum Sodomæum, a prickly shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato. --
Apple sauce, stewed apples. [ U. S. ] --
Apple snail or
Apple shell (Zool.), a fresh-water, operculated, spiral shell of the genus Ampullaria. --
Apple tart, a tart containing apples. --
Apple tree, a tree which naturally bears apples. See Apple, 2. --
Apple wine, cider. --
Apple worm (Zool.), the larva of a small moth (Carpocapsa pomonella) which burrows in the interior of apples. See Codling moth. --
Dead Sea Apple. (a) pl. Apples of Sodom. Also Fig. “To seek the Dead Sea apples of politics.” S. B. Griffin. (b) A kind of gallnut coming from Arabia. See Gallnut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow like an apple; to bear apples. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the planning that is disrupted when someone "upsets the applecart". [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a cart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a round, broad face, like an apple. “Apple-faced children.” Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apple brandy; a brandy distilled from cider. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.. A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a mint (Mentha rotundifolia or Mentha suaveolens) with apple-scented stems of South and West Europe; naturalized in U.S.
Syn. -- apple mint. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell Conybeare. --
Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [ Colloq. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced.
Syn. -- apple sauce [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. nonsensical talk or writing.
Syn. -- folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A pimp; a kept gallant. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. New York City; -- a nickname, usually written The Big Apple. [ PJC ]

n. The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Graple. ] A claw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple. ] One of the spots on a dappled animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dappled p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling. ] To variegate with spots; to spot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gentle day, . . .
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word is used in composition to denote that some color is variegated or marked with spots; as, dapple-bay; dapple-gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

His steed was all dapple-gray. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, swiftly can speed my dapple-gray steed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To grapple. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Grappled p. pr. & vb. n. Grappling ] [ F. grappiller, OF. graypil the grapple of a ship, fr. graper to pluck, prop., to seize, clutch; of German origin. See Grape. ] 1. To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another. [ 1913 Webster ]

To grapple with, to enter into contest with, resolutely and courageously. [ 1913 Webster ]

And in my standard bear the arms of York,
To grapple with the house of Lancaster. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Grapple, v. t., and cf. Crapple. ] 1. A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab. (b) (Naut.) A grappling iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The iron hooks and grapples keen. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grapple plant (Bot.), a South African herb (Herpagophytum leptocarpum) having the woody fruits armed with long hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle, causing intense annoyance. --
Grapple shot (Life-saving Service), a projectile, to which are attached hinged claws to catch in a ship's rigging or to hold in the ground; -- called also anchor shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A grappling; close fight or embrace. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To seize; to clutch; to grapple. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Freq. of knap, v., cf. D. knabbelen to gnaw. ] To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) The eggplant bush (Solanum melongena). See Eggplant.
Syn. -- eggplant, aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, Solanum melongena. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The fruit of the eggplant bush, a large egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow.
Syn. -- eggplant, aubergine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A tropical American tree (Mammea americana) having edible fruit (the mammee apple) with a leathery rind.
Syn. -- mammee, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The globular or ovoid tropical fruit of the mammee tree (Mammea americana), having a thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. North American herb (Podophyllum peltatum) with poisonous root stock and an edible though insipid egg-shaped yellowish fruit; called also wild mandrake.
Syn. -- May apple, wild mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The fruit of the mayapple{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

[ So named from Otaheite, or Tahiti, one of the Society Islands. ] (Bot.) (a) The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree (Spondias dulcis), 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. (b) A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree (Jambosa Malaccensis) which bears crimson berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. eskapeler, eschapler, to cut, hew, LL. scapellare. Cf. Scabble. ] (a) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. (b) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of scrap. ] An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. A. Grisebach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Sheldafle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also thropple, corrupted fr. throttle. ] Windpipe; throttle. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]