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An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.

The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. A. Grisebach.

See Sheldafle.

To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. [Obs.] Chapman.

Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

See Otaheite apple.

ty. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. Adam's ale, water. [Coll.] -- Adam's apple.

The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.

ched to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.

ted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. [U.S.]

oothes, or restores. Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood Tennyson. Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -- Balsam fir (Bot.), t…

A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.

To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore. Dryden.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [Written also bellefleur.]

A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.