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Of the color of a peach blossom. "Peach-colored satin." Shak.

Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

One who peaches. [Low] Foxe.

The chicken of the peacock.

Resembling a peach or peaches.

To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak.

The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.

n a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon. How shall they preach, except they be sent Rom. x. 15. From that time Jesus began to preach. Matt. iv. 17.

One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14.

The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.

To discourse in the manner of a preacher. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

onizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place. -- Preaching friars. See Dominican.

A preacher; -- so called in contempt. [Obs.] Howell.

A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.

A thick, bushy plot; a thicket. [Obs.] Chapman.

Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving. "The queachy fens." "Godwin's queachy sands." Drayton.

Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten. Rom. of R. Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side. John xx. 27. Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs. Milton.

Being within reach.

One who reaches.

Being beyond reach; lofty. Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight. Bp. Hall.