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(Bot.) A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum. [ 1913 Webster ]

A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to chemotherapy; using chemotherapy; having properties beneficial for chemotherapy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. crêpe, fr. L. crispus curled, crisped. See Crisp. ] A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. [ 1913 Webster ]

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerstroemia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. --
Oriental crape. See Canton crape. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Craped p. pr. & vb. n. Craping. ] [ F. crêper, fr. L. crispare to curl, crisp, fr. crispus. See Crape, n. ] To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hour for curling and craping the hair. Mad. D'Arblay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a fern of New Zealand (Leptopteris superba) with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea.
Syn. -- crape fern, Prince-of-Wales fern, Prince-of-Wales feather, Prince-of-Wales plume, Leptopteris superba, Todea superba. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tropical shrub (Tabernaemontana divaricata), native to India, having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; Northern India to Thailand.
Syn. -- crepe jasmine, crepe gardenia, pinwheel flower, East Indian rosebay, Adam's apple, Nero's crown, coffee rose, Tabernaemontana divaricata. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an tall East Indian and Chinese shrub (Lagerstroemia indica of the loosestrife family, commonly planted in Southern and Western U. S. as an ornamental shrub. It has clusters of red, white, purple, or pink flowers.
Syn. -- crepe myrtle, crepe flower, Lagerstroemia indica. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a game in which two play solitaire with separate packs.
Syn. -- Russian bank. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Draped p. pr. & vb. n. Draping ] [ F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d Drab. ] 1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

These starry blossoms, [ of the snow ] pure and white,
Soft falling, falling, through the night,
Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rail at; to banter. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make cloth. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; as, a beam draped with cobwebs. Contrasted with uncovered.
Syn. -- cloaked, clothed, mantled, wrapped. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. curtained; -- of windows; as, velvet-draped windows. Opposite of curtainless. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. drapier. ] One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered or supplied with drapery. [ R. ] Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Draperies [ F. draperie. ] 1. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Casting of draperies. See under Casting. [ 1913 Webster ]

The casting of draperies . . . is one of the most important of an artist's studies. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of drap. ] Cloth. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. frap, and Prov. E. frape to scold. ] A crowd, a rabble. [ Obs. ] ares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple. ] 1. (Bot.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mil.) Grapeshot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grape borer. (Zool.) See Vine borer. --
Grape curculio (Zool.), a minute black weevil (Craponius inæqualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes. --
Grape flower, or
Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. --
Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew. --
Grape hopper (Zool.), a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. --
Grape moth (Zool.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk. --
Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech. --
Grape sugar. See Glucose. --
Grape worm (Zool.), the larva of the grape moth. --
Sour grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to Æsop's fable of the fox and the grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A citrus tree (Citrus paradisi) bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- Citrus paradisi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The large yellow fruit of the Citrus paradisi, having somewhat acid juicy pulp. It is a popular breakfast food. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

. The shaddock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seed of the grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common grapevine of the Old World is Vitis vinifera, and is a native of Central Asia. Another variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly called Zante currants. The northern Fox grape of the United States is the V. Labrusca, from which, by cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The southern Fox grape, or Muscadine, is the V. vulpina. The Frost grape is V. cordifolia, which has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early frosts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An ornamental evergreen shrub (Mahonia aquifolium) of the Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries.
Syn. -- Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape, mountain grape, holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Hydro-, 1 + therapeutics. ] (Med.) A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Bot.) Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. para- + pectin. ] (Chem.) A gelatinous modification of pectin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. parapegma, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to fix beside; para` beside + &unr_; to fix: cf. F. parapegme. ] An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Parapegms were used for the publication of laws, proclamations, etc., and the recording of astronomical phenomena or calendar events. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. para- + peptone. ] (Phisiol. Chem.) A proteinaceous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. It. parapetto, fr. parare to ward off, guard (L. parare to prepare, provide) + petto the breast, L. pectus. See Parry, and Pectoral. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arch.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. para- + petal. ] (Bot.) Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a parapet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Psycho- + therapeutics. ] (Med.) The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch. ] One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. râpe a grape stalk. ] 1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See Rap to snatch. ] 1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. [ 1913 Webster ]

And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is snatched away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where now are all my hopes? O, never more
Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Fig., Colloq.) An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To commit rape upon; to ravish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fig., Colloq.) To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; as, women raped first by their assailants, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd rape, n. 5. [ PJC ]

To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To rob; to pillage. [ Obs. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. "ra`pys, "ra`fys, G. rübe. ] (Bot.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock (Brassica oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole. [ 1913 Webster ]

Broom rape. (Bot.) See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary. --
Rape cake, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed. --
Rape root. Same as Rape. --
Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Violent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to the commission of rape. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female satrap. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scraped p. pr. & vb. n. Scraping. ] [ Icel. skrapa; akin to Sw. skrapa, Dan. skrabe, D. schrapen, schrabben, G. schrappen, and prob. to E. sharp. ] 1. To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above). [ 1913 Webster ]

I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ezek. xxvi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

To scrape acquaintance, to seek acquaintance otherwise than by an introduction. Farquhar. [ 1913 Webster ]

He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]