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    love apple
    [ noun ]
    native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
    <noun.plant>


    Love \Love\ (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin
    to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh
    to be lustful. See {Lief}.]
    1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which
    delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or
    devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love
    of brothers and sisters.

    Of all the dearest bonds we prove
    Thou countest sons' and mothers' love
    Most sacred, most Thine own. --Keble.

    2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate
    affection for, one of the opposite sex.

    He on his side
    Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love
    Hung over her enamored. --Milton.

    3. Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e.,
    to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

    Demetrius . . .
    Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
    And won her soul. --Shak.

    4. Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or
    desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to {hate}; often
    with of and an object.

    Love, and health to all. --Shak.

    Smit with the love of sacred song. --Milton.

    The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
    --Fenton.

    5. Due gratitude and reverence to God.

    Keep yourselves in the love of God. --Jude 21.

    6. The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing
    address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest
    love was reading. ``Trust me, love.'' --Dryden.

    Open the temple gates unto my love. --Spenser.

    7. Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

    Such was his form as painters, when they show
    Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. --Dryden.

    Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
    --Shak.

    8. A thin silk stuff. [Obs.] --Boyle.

    9. (Bot.) A climbing species of C{lematis} ({Clematis
    Vitalba}).

    10. Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in
    counting score at tennis, etc.

    He won the match by three sets to love. --The
    Field.

    11. Sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism.
    [PJC]

    Note: Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in
    most of which the meaning is very obvious; as,
    love-cracked, love-darting, love-killing, love-linked,
    love-taught, etc.

    {A labor of love}, a labor undertaken on account of regard
    for some person, or through pleasure in the work itself,
    without expectation of reward.

    {Free love}, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one
    of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. See
    {Free love}.

    {Free lover}, one who avows or practices free love.

    {In love}, in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of
    the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love.

    {Love apple} (Bot.), the tomato.

    {Love bird} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small,
    short-tailed parrots, or parrakeets, of the genus
    {Agapornis}, and allied genera. They are mostly from
    Africa. Some species are often kept as cage birds, and are
    celebrated for the affection which they show for their
    mates.

    {Love broker}, a person who for pay acts as agent between
    lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. --Shak.

    {Love charm}, a charm for exciting love. --Ld. Lytton.

    {Love child}. an illegitimate child. --Jane Austen.

    {Love day}, a day formerly appointed for an amicable
    adjustment of differences. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
    --Chaucer.

    {Love drink}, a love potion; a philter. --Chaucer.

    {Love favor}, something given to be worn in token of love.

    {Love feast}, a religious festival, held quarterly by some
    religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists,
    in imitation of the agap[ae] of the early Christians.

    {Love feat}, the gallant act of a lover. --Shak.

    {Love game}, a game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished
    person or party does not score a point.

    {Love grass}. [G. liebesgras.] (Bot.) Any grass of the genus
    {Eragrostis}.

    {Love-in-a-mist}. (Bot.)
    (a) An herb of the Buttercup family ({Nigella Damascena})
    having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut
    bracts.
    (b) The West Indian {Passiflora f[oe]tida}, which has
    similar bracts.

    {Love-in-idleness} (Bot.), a kind of violet; the small pansy.

    A little western flower,
    Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound;
    And maidens call it love-in-idleness. --Shak.

    {Love juice}, juice of a plant supposed to produce love.
    --Shak.

    {Love knot}, a knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from
    being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual
    affection. --Milman.

    {Love lass}, a sweetheart.

    {Love letter}, a letter of courtship. --Shak.

    {Love-lies-bleeding} (Bot.), a species of amaranth
    ({Amarantus melancholicus}).

    {Love match}, a marriage brought about by love alone.

    {Love potion}, a compounded draught intended to excite love,
    or venereal desire.

    {Love rites}, sexual intercourse. --Pope

    {Love scene}, an exhibition of love, as between lovers on the
    stage.

    {Love suit}, courtship. --Shak.

    {Of all loves}, for the sake of all love; by all means.
    [Obs.] ``Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back
    again.'' --Holinshed.

    {The god of love}, or {The Love god}, Cupid.

    {To make love}, to engage in sexual intercourse; -- a
    euphemism.

    {To make love to}, to express affection for; to woo. ``If you
    will marry, make your loves to me.'' --Shak.

    {To play for love}, to play a game, as at cards, without
    stakes. ``A game at piquet for love.'' --Lamb.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    Syn: Affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness;
    delight.


    Apple \Ap"ple\ ([a^]p"p'l), n. [OE. appel, eppel, AS. [ae]ppel,
    [ae]pl; akin to Fries. & D. appel, OHG, aphul, aphol, G.
    apfel, Icel. epli, Sw. ["a]ple, Dan. [ae]ble, Gael. ubhall,
    W. afal, Arm. aval, Lith. ob[*u]lys, Russ. iabloko; of
    unknown origin.]
    1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree ({Pyrus
    malus}) cultivated in numberless varieties in the
    temperate zones.

    Note: The European crab apple is supposed to be the original
    kind, from which all others have sprung.

    2. (bot.) Any tree genus {Pyrus} which has the stalk sunken
    into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

    3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or
    supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or
    love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

    4. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

    Note: Apple is used either adjectively or in combination; as,
    apple paper or apple-paper, apple-shaped, apple
    blossom, apple dumpling, apple pudding.

    {Apple blight}, an aphid which injures apple trees. See
    {Blight}, n.

    {Apple borer} (Zo["o]l.), a coleopterous insect ({Saperda
    candida} or {Saperda bivittata}), the larva of which bores
    into the trunk of the apple tree and pear tree.

    {Apple brandy}, brandy made from apples.

    {Apple butter}, a sauce made of apples stewed down in cider.
    --Bartlett.

    {Apple corer}, an instrument for removing the cores from
    apples.

    {Apple fly} (Zo["o]l.), any dipterous insect, the larva of
    which burrows in apples. Apple flies belong to the genera
    {Drosophila} and {Trypeta}.

    {Apple midge} (Zo["o]l.) a small dipterous insect ({Sciara
    mali}), the larva of which bores in apples.

    {Apple of the eye}, the pupil.

    {Apple of discord}, a subject of contention and envy, so
    called from the mythological golden apple, inscribed ``For
    the fairest,'' which was thrown into an assembly of the
    gods by Eris, the goddess of discord. It was contended for
    by Juno, Minerva, and Venus, and was adjudged to the
    latter.

    {Apple of love}, or {Love apple}, the tomato ({Lycopersicum
    esculentum}).

    {Apple of Peru}, a large coarse herb ({Nicandra physaloides})
    bearing pale blue flowers, and a bladderlike fruit
    inclosing a dry berry.

    {Apples of Sodom}, a fruit described by ancient writers as
    externally of fair appearance but dissolving into smoke
    and ashes when plucked; Dead Sea apples. The name is often
    given to the fruit of {Solanum Sodom[ae]um}, a prickly
    shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato.

    {Apple sauce}, stewed apples. [U. S.]

    {Apple snail} or {Apple shell} (Zo["o]l.), a fresh-water,
    operculated, spiral shell of the genus {Ampullaria}.

    {Apple tart}, a tart containing apples.

    {Apple tree}, a tree which naturally bears apples. See
    {Apple, 2.}

    {Apple wine}, cider.

    {Apple worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a small moth
    ({Carpocapsa pomonella}) which burrows in the interior of
    apples. See {Codling moth}.

    {Dead Sea Apple}.
    (a) pl. Apples of Sodom. Also Fig. ``To seek the Dead Sea
    apples of politics.'' --S. B. Griffin.
    (b) A kind of gallnut coming from Arabia. See {Gallnut}.

    Tomato \To*ma"to\, n.; pl. {Tomatoes}. [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of
    American Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.)
    The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family ({Lycopersicum
    esculentun}); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is
    called also {love apple}, is usually of a rounded, flattened
    form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or
    yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.

    {Tomato gall} (Zo["o]l.), a large gall consisting of a mass
    of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of
    grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with
    red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly
    ({Lasioptera vitis}).

    {Tomato sphinx} (Zo["o]l.), the adult or imago of the {tomato
    worm}. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called
    also {tomato hawk moth}. See Illust. of {Hawk moth}.

    {Tomato worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth
    ({Manduca quinquemaculata}, {Protoparce quinquemaculata},
    {Sphinx quinquemaculata}, or {Macrosila quinquemaculata})
    which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato
    plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also
    {tomato hornworm} and {potato worm}, and in the Southern
    U. S. {tobacco fly}.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

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