Word Meanings - APPLE-JACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apple brandy.

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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
• 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
• STRAPPLE
  To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
• ADAM'S APPLE
  See ADAM
• 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.