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ase whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrott, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. Watts.

t which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. Milton.

A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.

ve in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below. Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. SeeColocynth. -- Cucumber beetle. (…

The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

ding several species of Anona (A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.

ht eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

A one-seeded, one-called, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.

ædal hand of Nature. J. Philips. The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. Spenser.

Zoöl.), any moth of the genus Apatalea. The larvæ are often destructive to the foliage of fruit trees, etc. -- Dagger of lath, the wooden weapon given to the Vice in the old Moralities. Shak. -- Double dagger, a mark of reference [||] which comes next in order after the dagger. -- To look, or speak, daggers, to look…

A crystalline vari ety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.

A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud. [Obs.] Plant fruit trees in large borders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. Bacon.

ing wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.