a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider, United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan; brother of Oliver Hazard Perry (1794-1858), obsolete A suddent squall. See pirry

archaic, rare A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot

The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh, an oil expressed from the ripe fruit of the olive, and much used as a salad oil, also in medicine and the arts, hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwor, adjective_ Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive, Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green