Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vine \Vine\, n. [F. vigne, L. vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus
   of or belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See {Wine}, and
   cf. {Vignette}.] (Bot.)
      (a) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
      (b) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender
          stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs
          by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing
          anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper;
          as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons,
          squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

                There shall be no grapes on the vine. --Jer.
                                                  viii. 13.

                And one went out into the field to gather herbs,
                and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild
                gourds.                           --2 Kings iv.
                                                  89.

   {Vine apple} (Bot.), a small kind of squash. --Roger
      Williams.

   {Vine beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
      beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of
      the grapevine. Among the more important species are the
      grapevine fidia (see {Fidia}), the spotted {Pelidnota}
      (see {Rutilian}), the vine fleabeetle ({Graptodera
      chalybea}), the rose beetle (see under {Rose}), the vine
      weevil, and several species of {Colaspis} and {Anomala}.
      

   {Vine borer}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) Any one of several species of beetles whose larv[ae]
          bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially
          {Sinoxylon basilare}, a small species the larva of
          which bores in the stems, and {Ampeloglypter
          sesostris}, a small reddish brown weevil (called also
          {vine weevil}), which produces knotlike galls on the
          branches.
      (b) A clearwing moth ({[AE]geria polistiformis}), whose
          larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often
          destructive.

   {Vine dragon}, an old and fruitless branch of a vine. [Obs.]
      --Holland.

   {Vine forester} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
      moths belonging to {Alypia} and allied genera, whose
      larv[ae] feed on the leaves of the grapevine.

   {Vine fretter} (Zo["o]l.), a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera
      that injuries the grapevine.

   {Vine grub} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of insect
      larv[ae] that are injurious to the grapevine.

   {Vine hopper} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of leaf
      hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially
      {Erythroneura vitis}. See Illust. of {Grape hopper}, under
      {Grape}.

   {Vine inchworm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of
      geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine,
      especially {Cidaria diversilineata}.

   {Vine-leaf rooer} (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ({Desmia
      maculalis}) whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the
      leaves of the grapevine. The moth is brownish black,
      spotted with white.

   {Vine louse} (Zo["o]l.), the phylloxera.

   {Vine mildew} (Bot.), a fungous growth which forms a white,
      delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and
      fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green
      parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the
      vitality of the surface. The plant has been called {Oidium
      Tuckeri}, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing
      stage of an {Erysiphe}.

   {Vine of Sodom} (Bot.), a plant named in the Bible (--Deut.
      xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of
      Sodom. See {Apple of Sodom}, under {Apple}.

   {Vine sawfly} (Zo["o]l.), a small black sawfiy ({Selandria
      vitis}) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the
      grapevine. The larv[ae] stand side by side in clusters
      while feeding.

   {Vine slug} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the vine sawfly.

   {Vine sorrel} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Cissus acida})
      related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is
      found in Florida and the West Indies.

   {Vine sphinx} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of hawk
      moths. The larv[ae] feed on grapevine leaves.

   {Vine weevil}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Vine borer}
      (a) above, and {Wound gall}, under {Wound}.

Oidium \O*["i]d"i*um\, n. [NL., dim. fr. Gr. w,'o`n egg.] (Bot.)
   A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of
   filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to
   this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of
   fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew ({O["i]dium
   Tuckeri}), which has caused much injury to grapes.

Grape \Grape\, n. [OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes,
   F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo
   hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have
   come from the idea of clutching. Cf. {Agraffe}, {Cramp},
   {Grapnel}, {Grapple}.]
   1. (Bot.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent
      clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are
      smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in
      great quantities for table use and for making wine and
      raisins.

   2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.

   3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

   4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.

   {Grape borer}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Vine borer}.

   {Grape curculio} (Zo["o]l.), a minute black weevil
      ({Craponius in[ae]qualis}) which in the larval state eats
      the interior of grapes.

   {Grape flower}, or

   {Grape hyacinth} (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Muscari
      racemosum}) with small blue globular flowers in a dense
      raceme.

   {Grape fungus} (Bot.), a fungus ({Oidium Tuckeri}) on
      grapevines; vine mildew.

   {Grape hopper} (Zo["o]l.), a small yellow and red hemipterous
      insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the
      grapevine.

   {Grape moth} (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ({Eudemis botrana}),
      which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and
      often binds them together with silk.

   {Grape of a cannon}, the cascabel or knob at the breech.

   {Grape sugar}. See {Glucose}.

   {Grape worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the grape moth.

   {Sour grapes}, things which persons affect to despise because
      they can not possess them; -- in allusion to [AE]sop's
      fable of the fox and the grapes.