Lexicographical Neighbors of Apricock
Literary usage of Apricock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old-time Recipes for Home Made Wines, Cordials and Liqueurs from Fruits by Helen S. Wright (1909)
"apricock WINE Take three pounds of sugar, and three quarts of water; let them
boil together and skim it well. ..."
2. The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq.: Abridged by Robert Boyle (1725)
"I took cut the apricock, inclos'd with the water; and, ... The apricock, inclos'd
without water, kept its colour and figure, only feem'd to have loft its ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"54. apricock, an apricot. Richard II, iii. 4. 29 ; Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 1. ...
apricock is in common prov. use in various parts of England from the north ..."
4. The Whole Art of Husbandry: Or, the Way of Managing and Improving of Land by John Mortimer (1716)
"I am told that an apricock, inoculated on a Peach, mightily improves the Fruit.
... and delight in the fame Soil, eM M<l and do beft grafted on apricock- ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
""Apricot;" in Shakspere, and in other writers of that century, apricock ; in
older writers ... 169 : " Feed him with apricock's and dewberries " ; and Rich. ..."
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