A fruit, vulgarly called an open a-se; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that it is never ripe till it is as rotten as a t--d, and then it is not worth a f--t.
·noun A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is somethi...
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A salted herring. ...
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