Helen Fenton

Apple: Definition and part of speech

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Apple

  1. v. i. To grow like an apple; to bear apples.
  2. n. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
  3. n. Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
  4. 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.
  5. n. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Apple-john: Definition and part of speech

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Apple-john

  1. n. A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; — called also Johnapple.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Appliance: Definition and part of speech

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Appliance

  1. 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.
  2. n. The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Applicable: Definition and part of speech

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Applicable

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.