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s are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish.

To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade.

Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences.

One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.

), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also ocra and ochra.]

The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.

Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.

A kind of sauce or pickle. King.

Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.] Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.

put up any of the rent." Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To rai…

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions. Johnson.

ithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles. Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Scak.

Pickle made with salt.

eg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc. Hast thou aught in thy purse [bag] any hot spices Piers Plowman.

sun; as, hands covered with tan. Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed. -- Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. -- Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.…

n Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott.

flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.