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a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

us language. The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment. Macaulay.

The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing. [Obs.] Peacham.

; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to Ant: hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.

(Bot.), a small ericaceous tree (Oxydendrum arboreum) whose leaves resemble those of the peach and have a sour taste. It is common along the Alleghanies. Called also sourwood. -- Wood sorrel (Bot.), any plant of the genus Oxalis.

To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. [Slang] Thackeray. To split on a rock, to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.

The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.

Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.

Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham.

To pain velvet. [R.] Peacham.

Wiry. [Obs.] "Wiery gold." Peacham.

In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed. Peacham.

-- Wolf net, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish. -- Wolf's peach (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple (Lycopersicum esculentum). -- Wolf spider (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of running ground spiders belonging to the genus Lycosa, or family Lycosidæ. These spiders run about rapidly i…

ne of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under Peach), and of the goat moths. (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See Tremex. (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species…

A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.