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The operation of gathering grapes. [Obs.] Bailey.

Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.

One who cultivates, prunes, or cares for, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard. The sons of the shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. Isa. lxi. 5.

A structure, usually inclosed with glass, for rearing and protecting vines; a grapery.

An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.

The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.

The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.

n a violent manner; to abuse. His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape. Milton.

Ravishment; rape; outrage. Shak.

Ravishment; rape; constupration. To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She . . . did violence on herself." Shak. -- To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.

The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.

A genus of plants including all true grapevines.

ions. But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. Milton. Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen. De Quincey.

for various other purposes. [Spelled also wadmal, wadmeal, wadmoll, wadmel, etc.] Beck (Draper's Dict.). Sir W. Scott.

rowing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor.

A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

terwort, which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep. (b) A disease of grapes. See White rot, under Rot. -- White sage (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub (Eurotia lanata) of Western North America; -- called also winter fat. -- White salmon (Zoöl.), the silver salmon. -- White salt, salt dried and c…

The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. xx. 1. Bacchus, that fi…

A place where grapes are converted into wine.

Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of a winy taste. Dampier.