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The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.

Decorated or furnished with olive trees. [R.] T. Warton.

An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.

An olive grove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.

The wood of the olive.

A pulley. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.

uration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

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.

tinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the t…

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

To remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. Holland.

A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask. [U. S.] Bartlett.

state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 1…

An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

s or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.