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Low. Neap tides, the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.

t of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.

Of of pertaining to Maples in Italy. -- n.

An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream.

See Neaped.

Having nine petals, or flower leaves.

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 nip; to blast; to blight. [Obs.] Biron is like an envious, sneaping frost. Shak.

The pineapple (Ananassa sativa).

tached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

The Neapolitan medlar (Cratægus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

ic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.

Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.

s of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.

A West Indian plant of the Pineapple family (Nidularium Karatas).

A rich, sweet, red Neapolitan wine.

s not eaten until it has begun to decay. Japan medlar (Bot.), the loquat. See Loquat. -- Neapolitan medlar (Bot.), a kind of thorn tree (Cratægus Azarolus); also, its fruit.

an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.