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Grapery :: Grapery (n.) A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

Isabella Grape :: Isabella grape () A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox..

Mucker :: Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts..

Muscadine :: Muscadine (n.) A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine..

Renne :: Renne (v. t.) To plunder; -- only in the phrase to rape and renne. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch..

Trapeziform :: Trapeziform (a.) Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

Therapeutic :: Therapeutic (a.) Alt. of Therapeutica.

Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet..

Profiling :: Profiling (n.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points..

Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..

Satrapess :: Satrapess (n.) A female satrap.

Flea-beetle :: Flea-beetle (n.) A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species..

Earthbag :: Earthbag (n.) A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet..

Escarp :: Escarp (n.) The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp..

Brisure :: Brisure (n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

Draperies :: Draperies (pl. ) of Draper.

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

Black :: Black (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.

Fidia :: Fidia (n.) A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America..

Colza :: Colza (n.) A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape..

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