Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)

Displaying 31 result(s) from the 1913 edition:

Chess-apple (Page: 246)

Chess"-ap`ple (?), n. The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).

Copple (Page: 319)

Cop"ple (?), n. [A dim. of Cop.] Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.

A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

Crapple (Page: 340)

Crap"ple (kr?p"p'l), n. [See Graple.] A claw. [Obs.]

Cripple (Page: 345)

Crip"ple (kr?p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krppel, Dan. krbling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. crepan to creep. See Creep.] One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden.

Cripple (Page: 345)

Crip"ple (kr?p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.

Cripple (Page: 345)

Crip"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).]

1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott.

2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.

More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey.

An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay.

Dapple (Page: 367)

Dap"ple (?), n. [Cf. Icel. depill a spot, a dot, a dog with spots over the eyes, dapi a pool, and E. dimple.] 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.

Dapple (Page: 367)

Dap"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dappled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dappling.] To variegate with spots; to spot.

The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak.

The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

Dripple (Page: 455)

Drip"ple (?), a. [From Drip, cf. Dribble.] Weak or rare. [Obs.]

Engrapple (Page: 493)

En*grap"ple (?), v. t. & i. To grapple. [Obs.]

Fipple (Page: 562)

Fip"ple (f&etil;r), n. [perh. fr. L. fibula a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E. fible a stick used to stir pottage.] A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] Bacon.

Grapple (Page: 645)

Grap"ple (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grappled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Grappling (?).] [F. grappiller, OF. graypil the grapple of a ship, fr. graper to pluck, prop., to seize, clutch; of German origin. See Grape.]

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

2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.

The gallies were grappled to the Centurion. Hakluyt.

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Shak.

Grapple (Page: 645)

Grap"ple, v. i. To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another. To grapple with, to enter into contest with, resolutely and courageously.

And in my standard bear the arms of York, To grapple with the house of Lancaster. Shak.

Grapple (Page: 645)

Grap"ple, n. [See Grapple, v. t., and cf. Crapple.]

1. A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold. Milton.

2. (a) An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab. (b) (Naut.) A grappling iron.

The iron hooks and grapples keen. Spenser.

Grapple plant (Bot.), a South African herb (Herpagophytum leptocarpum) having the woody fruits armed with long hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle, causing intense annoyance. -- Grapple shot (Life-saving Service), a projectile, to which are attached hinged claws to catch in a ship's rigging or to hold in the ground; -- called also anchor shot.

Gripple (Page: 651)

Grip"ple (?), n. A grasp; a gripe. [Obs.] Spenser.

Gripple (Page: 651)

Grip"ple, a. [Dim. fr. gripe.] Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious. [Obs.] Spenser.

Hopple (Page: 705)

Hop"ple (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoppled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hoppling (?).] [From Hop; cf. Hobble.]

1. To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

2. Fig.: To entangle; to hamper. Dr. H. More.

Hopple (Page: 705)

Hop"ple, n. A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Ingrapple (Page: 763)

In*grap"ple (?), v. t. & i. To seize; to clutch; to grapple. [Obs.] Drayton.

Knapple (Page: 816)

Knap"ple (?), v. i. [Freq. of knap, v., cf. D. knabbelen to gnaw.] To break off with an abrupt, sharp noise; to bite; to nibble. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Mad-apple (Page: 880)

Mad"-ap`ple (?), n. (Bot.) See Eggplant.

Nipple (Page: 976)

Nip"ple (?), n. [Formerly neble, a dim. of neb. See Neb, Nib.]

1. (Anat.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. [R.] Derham.

3. Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.

4. (Mech.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings. Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by soldering. [977]

Otaheite apple (Page: 1016)

O`ta*hei"te ap"ple (?). [So named from Otaheite, or Tahiti, one of the Society Islands.] (Bot.) (a) 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. (b) A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree (Jambosa Malaccensis) which bears crimson berries.

Pineapple (Page: 1088)

Pine"ap`ple (?), n. (Bot.) 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.

Popple (Page: 1114)

Pop"ple (?), v. i. [Cf. Pop.] To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble. Cotton.

Popple (Page: 1114)

Pop"ple, n.

1. The poplar. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

2. Tares. [Obs.] To sow popple among wheat." Bale.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple (?), n. [FRom Rip, v.] An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, v. t.

1. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

2. Hence, to scratch or tear. Holland.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rippled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rippling (?).] [Cf. Rimple, Rumple.]

1. To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.

2. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, v. t. To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.

Ripple (Page: 1244)

Rip"ple, n.

1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.

2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter. Ripple grass. (Bot.) See Ribwort. -- Ripple marks, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum.

Displaying 23 result(s) from the 1828 edition:

CHESS-APPLE, n. A species of wild service.

CRAB-APPLE, n. A wild apple. [See Crab.]

CRIPPLE, n. [G.] A lame person; primarily, one who creeps, halts or limps; one who has lost, or never enjoyed the use of his limbs. Acts 14.

The word may signify one who is partially or totally disabled from using his limbs.

See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing.

CRIPPLE, a. Lame.

CRIPPLE, v.t.

1. To lame; to deprive of the use of the limbs, particularly of the legs and feet.

2. To disable; to deprive of the power of exertion. We say, a fleet was crippled in the engagement.

CUSTARD-APPLE, n. A plant, a species of Annona, growing in the West Indies, whose fruit is of the size of a tennis ball, of an orange color, containing a yellowish pulp, of the consistence of custard.

DAP''PLE, a. Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification.

DAP''PLE, v.t. To spot; to variegate with spots.

The gentle day dapples the drowsy east with spots

of gray. Shak.

The dapples pink, and blushing rose. Prior.

DRIPPLE, a. Weak or rare. [Not in use.]

ENGRAP''PLE, v.t. [from grapple. To grapple; to seize and hold; to close in and hold fast. [See Grapple, which is generally used.]

FIP''PLE, n. [L. fibula.] A stopper. [Not in use.]

GRAP''PLE, v.t.

1. To seize; to lay fast hold on, either with the hands or with hooks. We say, a man grapples his antagonist, or a ship grapples another ship.

2. To fasten; to fix, as the mind or heart. [Not in use.]

GRAP''PLE, v.i. To seize; to contend in close fight, as wrestlers.

To grapple with, to contend with, to struggle with successfully.

GRAP''PLE, n. A seizing; close hug in contest; the wrestler''s hold.

1. Close fight.

2. A hook or iron instrument by which one ship fastens on another.

GRIP''PLE, a. [from gripe.] Griping; greedy; covetous; unfeeling.

1. Grasping fast; tenacious.

HOP''PLE, v.t. To tie the feet near together to prevent leaping; as, to hopple an unruly horse.

JOHN''APPLE, n. A sort of apple, good for spring use, when other fruit is spent.

KING''APPLE, n. A kind of apple, so called.

KNAP''PLE, v.i. nap''ple. To break off with an abrupt sharp noise.

LOVE''APPLE, n. A plant of the genus Solanum.

MAD''APPLE, n. A plant of the genus Solanum.

MA''Y-APPLE, n. A plant of the genus Podophyllum.

NIP''PLE, n.

1. A teat; a dug; the spungy protuberance by which milk is drawn from the breasts of females.

2. The orifice at which any animal liquor is separated.

OAK-APPLE, n. A kind of spungy excrescence on oak leaves or tender branches, &c. produced in consequence of the puncture of an insect. It is called also oak leaf gall, or gall-nut.

PINE-APPLE, n. The ananas, a species of Bromelia, so called from its resemblance to the cone of the pine tree.

PUFF''IN-APPLE, n. A sort of apple so called.

QUEE''N-APPLE, n. A kind of apple, so called.

RIP''PLE, v.i.

To fret on the surface; as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom, appears rough and broken, or as if ripped or torn.

RIP''PLE, v.t.

1. To clean, as flax.

2. To agitate the surface of water.

RIP''PLE, n.

1. The fretting of the surface of water; little curling waves.

2. A large comb or hatchel for cleaning flax.