English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
Dictionary
Apple
(n.)
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.
Apple
(n.)
Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
Apple
(v. i.)
To grow like an apple; to bear apples.
Apple
(n.)
The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus)
cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
Apple
(n.)
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.
Apple-faced
(a.)
Having a round, broad face, like an apple.
Apple-jack
(n.)
Apple brandy.
Apple-john
(n.)
A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered;
-- called also Johnapple.
Apple-squire
(n.)
A pimp; a kept gallant.
Appliable
(a.)
Applicable; also, compliant.
Appliance
(n.)
The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
Appliance
(n.)
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.
Applicability
(n.)
The quality of being applicable or fit to be
applied.
Applicable
(a.)
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be
applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the
case under consideration.
Applicancy
(n.)
The quality or state of being applicable.
Applicant
(n.)
One who apples for something; one who makes request; a
petitioner.
Applicate
(a.)
Applied or put to some use.
Applicate
(v. i.)
To apply.
Application
(n.)
The act of making request of soliciting; as, an
application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.