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To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.

To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit. All the fruits out of which drink is expressed. Bacon. And th'idle breath all utterly expressed. Spenser. Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds. B. Jonson.

ng extracted; an extract. Extractives, of which the most constant are urea, kreatin, and grape sugar. H. N. Martin.

ogether, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.

The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

posite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet. See Illust. of Bastion.

To scrape o [Obs.] Johnson.

legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea- beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.

wer, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. To force their monarch and insult the court. Dryden. I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. Milton. To force a spotless virgin's chastity. Shak.

eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.

the tail of a fox. -- Fox evil, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. -- Fox grape (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape (Vitis Labrusca) is the origin of the varieties called Isabella, Concord, Hartford, etc., and the southern fox grape (Vitis vulpina) has produced the…

A coarse and sour taste in grapes.

ur; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.

An outwork. [Obs.] Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak.

A grape of many varieties and colors.