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A curvet. Peacham.

To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, wich yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach- blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon a…

, as to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham.

nse; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. You must deepen your colors. Peacham.

on. Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.

To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." Peacham.

[Obs.] He went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for overmuch familiarity. Peacham.

ning a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).

live in a place; to reside. The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions. Peacham. The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides. C. J. Smith. To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. "My hopes in heaven to dwell." Shak. -- To dwell on or upo…

Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.] Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.

rule has its exceptions. Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. Cowper.

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

ike that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.

Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.

The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.

Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.

A brief reflection or maxim. Peacham.