Definition of Grpe
Grape (?), 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.
2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this
fruit; the grapevine.
3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of
a horse.
4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.
Grape borer. (Zoöl.) See Vine
borer. -- Grape curculio
(Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a small
yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves
of the grapevine. -- Grape moth
(Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
GRAPE, n.
Hail noble fruit! -- by Homer sung,
Anacreon and Khayyam;
Thy praise is ever on the tongue
Of better men than I am.
The lyre in my hand has never swept,
The song I cannot offer:
My humbler service pray accept --
I'll help to kill the scoffer.
The water-drinkers and the cranks
Who load their skins with liquor --
I'll gladly bear their belly-tanks
And tap them with my sticker.
Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools
When e'er we let the wine rest.
Here's death to Prohibition's fools,
And every kind of vine-pest!
Jamrach Holobom
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on certain vines.
- (countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark purplish red colour, the colour of many grapes.
grape colour:
- grapeshot.
- Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
- Of a dark purplish red colour.
Swedish
- grapefruit
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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