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Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things. My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock.

adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case. -- Articles of war, rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the army.…

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.

To blazon. [Obs.] Peacham.

art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

Same as Blazon, 3. The principles of blazonry. Peacham.

of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color. In blossom, having the blossoms open; in bloom.

One of the larvæ of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.

y; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.

t distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. Brandy fruit, fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.

ld naturally bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.

infectant. -- Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances. -- Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at pre…

insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n.

] "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham.

Made dense; condensed. Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.