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Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

A grapestone.

Chemistry in its relations to actinism. Draper.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

s diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

e end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

tar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

d of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbett…

etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

ed by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.

hrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.