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pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.

name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

The juice of anything, especially if red. He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. xiix. 11.

delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly- gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

r tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

A sort of grape. Jonson.

in; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

A well known light red variety of American grape.

A white grape, esteemed for the table.

gs of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

g, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound. The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree. W. Irving.

A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

e natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. Lev. xxii. 24. The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. Num. xxii. 25.…

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

ttached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else. Like a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough. Dryden.