English English Dictionary

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.

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

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

Having a round, broad face, like an apple.

Apple brandy.

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple.

A pimp; a kept gallant.

Applicable; also, compliant.

The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.

The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.

The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.

Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.

The quality or state of being applicable.

One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.

Applied or put to some use.

To apply.

The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.