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Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc. A good name is better than precious ointment. Eccl. vii. 1. As good as. See under As. -- For good, or For good and all, completely and finally; fully; truly. The good woman never died after this, til…

oted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named.

on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point. "Two infants hanging on her neck." Peacham.

Violent; impetuous; headstrong. Spenser. Peacham.

rocyanic acid (Chem.), a colorless, mobile, volatile liquid, HCN, having a characteristic peach-blossom odor. It is one of the most deadly poisons. It is made by the action of sulphuric acid on yellow prussiate of potassium (potassium ferrocyanide), and chemically resembles hydrochloric and hydrobromic acids. Called al…

ed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

nd prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.

st; to gainsay; to oppose. The truth hereof I will net rashly pugn, or overboldly affirm. Peacham.

ncapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.

peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

ert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. Bu…

in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.

A pearl. [Obs.] Peacham.

Mediterranean countries, but now widely distributed. Its larva lives in ripening oranges, peaches, and other fruits, causing them to decay and fall.

A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]

Thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

limate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. Hawthorne.

A smooth-skinned variety of peach. Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum. it is made into a sweet conserve which a largely exported from Cuba.

A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.