grapy, a.
(ˈgreɪpɪ)
Also grapey.
[f. grape n.1 + -y1.]
1. Of or pertaining to grapes or to the vine; composed or savouring of grapes.
| 1594 Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 15 That little acquaintance which I haue had with the grapie God. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vii. lxxiii, His soul quite sousèd lay in grapy blood. 1717 Addison Ovid, Metam. iii. 800 The grapy clusters spread On his fair brows. 1717 Gay Ovid, Metam. ix. 198 And on the marble altar's polish'd frame Pours forth the grapy stream. 1837 Fraser's Mag. XVI. 162 ‘Surely’, said the corks, ‘we have been acquainted before?’ ‘Unquestionably’, answered the wine, with a grapy kiss, ‘we have’. 1863 B. Taylor H. Thurston I. 70 Neither of these gentlemen possessed a particle of the grapy bloom in either cell of the double heart. 1962 Harper's Bazaar Aug. 33 The plummy, grapey tones of the harvest. 1968 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. 13 There is nothing astringent about it [sc. a variety of Madeira]—it is always ‘grapey’. |
† 2. As the epithet of the choroid coat of the eye. (Cf. uvea.) Obs.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. v. (Tollem. MS.), Aftyr þis foloweþ þe curtel þat is called ‘uvea’, grapi, and haþ þat name for he is liche in coloure to a blak grape. 1615 H. Crooke Body of Man 671 The grapy membrane which is diuersly coloured would be seene. 1696 J. Edwards Demonstr. Exist. God ii. 30 The anterior part only is that which should be call'd grapy. It is generally black in man, and therefore hath the name because it resembles the skin of a black grape when 'tis press'd. |
3. Affected with ‘grapes’ (see grape n. 5).
| 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 313/1 The grapy heels are a disgrace to the stable in which they are found. |
4. Comb., as grapy-blue adj.
| 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 313 The stupid little half open eyes were of that strange, dull, grapy blue colour, common to beast or baby. |