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A seed of the grape.

genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

Hastate.

usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

One who heaps, piles, or amasses.

Having the shape of a heart; cordate.

Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of Galeate.

Having six petals.

A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes. -- n.

Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, between the stapes and the mediostapedial. -- n.

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.…

A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck.

A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.

A monkey; an ape. Shak.

A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes. Massinger.

To mock; to trick. Chaucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. W. Besant.

A jester; a buffoon. [Obs.] Chaucer.