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A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

ulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.

ame of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

The juice of anything, especially if red. He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. xiix. 11.

elicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly- gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

esin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes.

li, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

A sort of grape. Jonson.

coes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

n; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.