Peach : (noun)
1: cultivated in temperate regions [syn: peach tree, Prunus
persica]
2: a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher,
stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart,
lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]
3: downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
4: a shade of pink tinged with yellow [syn: yellowish pink, apricot,
salmon pink]
(verb)
1: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be
careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let
the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, babble,
sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep quiet]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Peach : \Peach\, v. t. [See Appeach, Impeach.]
To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] --Foxe.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Peach : \Peach\, v. i.
To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or
Colloq.]
If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Peach : \Peach\, n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[^e]che,
fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a
peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.] (Bot.)
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 (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a clearwing moth
({[AE]geria, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family
[AE]geriid[ae], which is very destructive to peach trees
by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the
moth itself. See Illust. under Borer.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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