1828.sorabji.com > Webster's 1828 English Dictionary

Pepper

PEP'PER, n. [L. piper.] A plant and its seed or grain, of the genus Piper. The stem of the plant is a vine requiring a prop, which is usually a tree. The leaves are oval and the flower white. We have three kinds of pepper,the black,the white, and the long. The black pepper is the produce of Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, and other Asiatic countries; The white pepper is the black pepper decorticated; the long pepper is the fruit of a different species, also from the E. Indies. It consists of numerous grains attached to a common footstalk. Pepper has a strong aromatic smell and a pungent taste.
PEP'PER, v.t. To sprinkle with pepper.
1. To beat; to pelt with shot; to mangle with blows.

 

NEW: Google Full-Text Search of Webster's 1828
Custom Search


Search Webster's 1828
Advanced Search
You can also look up words at dict.sorabji.com







RANDOM WEATHER LOCATION
Weather 74650, RALSTON OK
Weather 74650, RALSTON OK
More weather at weather.sorabji.com


Wander around sorabji.com: