Grape
[greɪp] or [ɡrep]
Definition
(noun.) any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters.
(noun.) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
(n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
(n.) Grapeshot.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fruit of the vine.
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Definition
n. the fruit of the grape-vine or of any of the many species of the genus Vitis: a mangy tumour on the legs of horses: grapeshot.—n. Grape′-hy′acinth a genus of bulbous-rooted plants nearly allied to the hyacinths.—adj. Grape′less without the flavour of the grape said of wine.—ns. Grap′ery a place where grapes are grown; Grape′shot shot or small iron balls clustered or piled on circular plates round an iron pin which scatter on being fired; Grape′-stone the stone or seed of the grape; Grape′-su′gar dextrose; Grape′-vine the vine that bears grapes.—adj. Grap′y made of or like grapes.—Sour grapes things despised because they cannot be attained (from 苨op's fable of the fox and the grapes).
v.i. a Scotch form of grope.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares; but if you only see them hanging in profuseness among the leaves, you will soon attain to eminent positions and will be able to impart happiness to others. For a young woman, this dream is one of bright promise. She will have her most ardent wish gratified. To dream of riding on horseback and passing musca-dine bushes and gathering and eating some of its fruit, denotes profitable employment and the realization of great desires. If there arises in your mind a question of the poisonous quality of the fruit you are eating, there will come doubts and fears of success, but they will gradually cease to worry you.
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Examples
- He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Still another part of it was a long stretch of low grape-vines, which were tanglesome and troublesome, and which we took to be brambles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That was the odor of the cactus flowers, mimosa and the sea-grape shrubs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Some of the residents are engaged in local business; some are occupied in farming and grape culture; others are employed in the iron-works near-by, at Norwalk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This is true not only of grape juice but also of the juice of all other sweet fruits; apple juice ferments to cider, currant juice to currant wine, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Among these is common tartaric acid--the acid of grape-juice, obtained from wine lees. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was much elated, and caused the envoys to be seated; then he ordered wine and music for himself and them and grape-syrup for the pilgrim. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For my part, I love to feel the grape at my very finger-ends before they make the harp-strings tinkle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This rule excluded the cultivation of the grape, olive and many other articles to which the soil and climate were well adapted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our exports of glucose and grape sugar for 1899 amounted to 229,003,571 pounds, worth $3,624,890. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The house was low and long with a trellis with a grape-vine over the door. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavor of sour grapes, upon my soul and honor! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I have brought you some grapes; can you taste one? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wild yeast settles on the skin of grapes and apples, but since it does not have access to the fruit juices within, it remains inactive very much as a seed does before it is planted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Margaret love, only taste these grapes! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The air there was charged with the scent of gathered grapes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He handed us the grapes, repeating in his radiant way, He sings! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The grapes or the cherries are sour--'hung too high. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Three months (you must not come for less) of this delicious climate--all sunshine, and grapes as common as blackberries, would quite cure her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I only felt that it was not right to steal grapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fine grapes used to grow in the islands, and an excellent wine was made and exported. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They were flowing for the fertilization of the land where grapes are gathered from thorns, and figs from thistles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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