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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A fleshy fruit, such as an apple, pear, or quince, having several seed chambers and an outer fleshy part largely derived from the hypanthium. Also called false fruit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An apple; a fruit of the apple kind; specifically, in botany, a fleshy fruit composed of the thickened walls of the adnate calyx embracing one or more carpels, as the apple, pear, etc.
2. n. A ball or globe; the kingly globe, mound, or ball of dominion.
3. n. In the Western Church, in medieval times, a small globe of silver or other metal filled with hot water and placed on the altar during mass in cold weather, so that the priest might keep his fingers from becoming numb, and thus avoid danger of accident to the elements.
4. To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

Wiktionary

1. n. A type of fruit in which the edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
2. v. obsolete, intransitive To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
2. n. (R. C. Ch.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
3. v. obsolete To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part