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e genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.…

A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.

An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

A gelatinous modification of pectin.

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.

Having a parapet.

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

A female satrap.

pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically:

coloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.

A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.

A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also scrap.] [Obs.] Bp. Bedell.

A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. [Obs.]