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A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

The shaddock.

Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

ngs, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.

A seed of the grape.

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

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

An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

ccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

A grapestone.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

us diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

rtar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

zed by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.

phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.