Peach
[piːtʃ] or [pitʃ]
Definition
(noun.) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh.
(noun.) cultivated in temperate regions.
Editor: Warren--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To accuse of crime; to inform against.
(v. i.) To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.
(n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
Editor: Segre
Definition
v.i. to betray one's accomplice: to become informer.—n. Peach′er.
n. a tree with a delicious juicy fruit: the fruit of this tree.—ns. Peach′-bloss′om a canary-yellow colour: pink with a yellowish tinge: a collector's name for a moth the Thyatira batis; Peach′-brand′y a spirit distilled from the fermented juice of the peach.—adj. Peach′-col′oured of the colour of a peach-blossom: pale red.—ns. Peach′ery a hothouse in which peaches are grown; Peach′-stone the hard nut enclosing the seed within the fruit of the peach; Peach′-wa′ter a flavouring extract used in cookery prepared from the peach.—adj. Peach′y.—n. Peach′-yell′ows a disease that attacks peach-trees in the eastern United States.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Dreaming of seeing or eating peaches, implies the sickness of children, disappointing returns in business, and failure to make anticipated visits of pleasure; but if you see them on trees with foliage, you will secure some desired position or thing after much striving and risking of health and money. To see dried peaches, denotes that enemies will steal from you. For a young woman to dream of gathering luscious peaches from well-filled trees, she will, by her personal charms and qualifications, win a husband rich in worldly goods and wise in travel. If the peaches prove to be green and knotty, she will meet with unkindness from relatives and ill health will steal away her attractions. See Orchard.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A popular synonym for Fair Woman, probably because the peach is largely a skin and stony at heart.
Typist: Merritt
Examples
- Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret; I am content. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Take the crimson peach--take Louis Moore! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, think away, dear,--only don't cry and worry your papa, said St. Clare, Look here,--see what a beautiful peach I have got for you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thou'll never go peach on that poor clemmed man. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Eat this, said the Moor, giving him half a peach; you now know that you may confide in my protection. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At the anode it appears as a peach blossom glow, and at the cathode it appears as a bluish green light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But it was made of rich peach-coloured crepe-de-chine, that hung heavily and softly from her young throat and her slender wrists. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And yet when he went from here (I may say with my blessing), and I spread afore him my humble store, like the Bee, he was as plump as a Peach! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Bottles can be so shaped that they make the olives, pickles, and peaches that they contain appear larger than they really are. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Lord Decimus had not heard anything amiss of his peaches, but rather believed, if his people were correct, he was to have no apples. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These are peaches, these are. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I'm very fond of peaches. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- By her side sat a woman with a bright tin pan in her lap, into which she was carefully sorting some dried peaches. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Sweet peaches, apples, grapes, contain a moderate amount of sugar; watermelons, pears, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The peaches, moreover, in obedience to a few gentle whispers from Rachel, were soon deposited, by the same hand, in a stew-pan over the fire. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The peaches are ripening. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I often saw them walking in the garden where the peaches were, and I sometimes had a nearer observation of them in the study or the parlour. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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