PEACHING

Verb

peaching

present participle of peach

Anagrams

• cheaping

Source: Wiktionary

PEACH

Peach, v. t. Etym: [See Appeach, Impeach.]

Definition: To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] Foxe.

Peach, v. i.

Definition: To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. Shak.

Peach, n. Etym: [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. pêche, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.] (Bot.)

Definition: A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

– Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree (Bactris speciosa).

– Peach color, the pale red color of the peach blossom.

– Peach-tree borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Ægeria, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family Ægeriidæ, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under Borer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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