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the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceæ; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.

A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.

A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc. Simmonds.

The state of being gourdy.

The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.

Swelled in the legs.

s, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark…

blood Tennyson. Balsam apple (Bot.), an East Indian plant ( Momordica balsamina), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. -- Balsam fir (Bot.), the American coniferous tree, Abies balsamea, from which the useful…

de their lives bitter with hard bondage. Ex. i. 14. Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd. (Bot.) See Colocynth. -- Bitter cress (Bot.), a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. C. amara. -- Bitter earth (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia. -- Bitter principles (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted from vege…

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

The common gourd (plant or fruit).

nsely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.

on, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.

A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. (c) The Angelica tree. See under Angelica. -- Hercules powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin; -- used for blasting.

it of several species and the species themselves, esp. L. Ægyptiaca, are called dishcloth gourds.

The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.

Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.