- A tropical fruit - Large orange-red tropical fruit - Plum-like fruit - Sharon fruit - Type of fruit - An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit,
found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance,
but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost,
when it becomes palatable and nutritious.
- Light green plum - Plum like fruit - A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish
flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after
the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
- An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of
the work. - Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. - To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water
swashing on a shallow place. - To fall violently or noisily. - To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag. - Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or
splashing of water. - A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank,
or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea
washes.