Choke Pear - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: choke pearChoke pear
A kind of pear that has a rough astringent taste and is swallowed with difficulty or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth...
Choking
That chokes producing the feeling of strangulation...
Choke, attempt to
Choke, attempt to. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 21, and GARROTTING....
Choky, Chokee
Choky, Chokee, a chair, seat, guard, watch. The station of a guard or watchman. A place where an officer is stationed to receive tolls and customs, Indian....
Pear
The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree Pyrus communis cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates also the tree which bears this fruit See Pear family below...
Pearly
Containing pearls abounding with or yielding pearls as pearly shells...
pearly everlasting
an American everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white scarious involucres...
Pear shaped
Of the form of a pear...
Garrotting
Garrotting, the criminal choking of a person. by the Garrotters Act, 1863 (26 & 27Vict. c. 44), the crimes of robbery with violence, which is punishable by penal servitude under s. 23 of the Larceny Act, 1916, and choking, etc., with intent to commit any indictable offence, which is similarly punishable under s. 21 of the offences against the Person Act, 1861, are each of them punishable also by whipping, if the offender be a male....
Bartlett
A Bartlett pear a favorite kind of pear which originated in England about 1770 and was called Williams Bonchreacutetien It was brought to America and distributed by Mr Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester Massachusetts...
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