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Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.…

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.

Apple brandy. [U.S.]

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.

A pimp; a kept gallant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

See under Adam.

The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).

A claw. [Obs.]

One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

To grapple. [Obs.]

To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

A grappling; close fight or embrace. [Obs.] Spenser.

To seize; to clutch; to grapple. [Obs.] Drayton.

To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

See Eggplant.

The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree (Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.