Unfortunately the fruit is susceptible to black-rot and a little inclined to shrivel after ripening.
Sometimes the disease girdles the stem of a fruit cluster, cutting off the supply of sap from the grapes beyond the diseased line and causing them to shrivel and die.
In the South and in some parts of the middle West the leaves of all varieties of Labrusca sunburn and shrivel in the latter part of the summer.
To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry orshrivel up.
To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
To cause to shrink orshrivel with cold; to benumb.
She covers her head carefully with her blanket that the sun may not shine on it and shrivel her up into a withered skeleton, as would result from exposure to the sun's beams.
Let the oysters simmer over the fire, but do not allow them to come to a boil, as that will shrivel them.
Yet what a woman she would make if the drying curse of high-caste life were not allowed to stereotype andshrivel her!
Another year of it, and he would shrivel like an old apple!
The apples really were splendid, red, and round; but as soon as Arátoff looked at them, they began to shrivel and fall.
By all means; only take all the facts into account, and if you have joys which shrivel up at the touch of this thought, then the sooner you get rid of such joys the better.
At the most they are 'wild grapes,' and there comes a time when they will be tested and the axe laid to the root of the trees, and these imperfect deeds will shrivelup and disappear.
All else there would shrivel as foul things born In the darkness do in the light, and be consumed in the fire.
That religious rite performed, he shaved twice over, it being Sunday, and strolled out to look at the horses and potter about the garden that was beginning to shrivelup already at the commencement of the hot weather.
In a land where most women shrivel into early age she continues, somewhere perhaps a little after thirty, in the bloom of health and loveliness, younger in looks and energy than many a Western girl of twenty-five.
Defn: To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
Defn: To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
Defn: To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.
He looked stouter than ever, but as if he might collapse altogether at a pin prick, and shrivel down to a wrinkled nothing among the creases of his tumbled bedding.
The datesshrivel on the palms, the streams dry up, the flowers droop and die in the sand.
My heart seemed toshrivel up, but I made an effort and answered: "'God hates no being whom He has created.
It would need but a short time to reduce the earth to the condition of the moon, where there is nothing to shrivel up, nothing to freeze.
I ought by rights to have eaten their ashes, or drunk a decoction of them, or at least treasured them in a golden urn, but contented myself with watching them shrivel and crackle with much sentimental satisfaction.
It seemed to me as if the mere gaze of all that multitude must melt the slight figure away like a wreath of vapor in the sun, or shrivel it up like a scrap of silver paper before a blazing fire.
It may be He makes excuses which the sinner dares not think of; while the most specious of false ones shrivel into ashes before Him.
When he blew off it was super-heated steam and you could see the sinners who were in range fairly sizzle and parboil and shrivel up.
She might shrivel up until I was the only student, yet I should still be happy in my nearness to Gladys Todd.
I vowed that some day Mr. Hanks should be put under my magnifying-glass, to shrivelbeneath my burning gaze.
I have previously mentioned that in Axolotls which were kept in shallow water the gills frequently became diminutive, and it also sometimes happens that they completely shrivel up.
These head segments do not subsequently become formed into a true horny head, but shrivel up; whilst the jaws disappear with the exception of the first pair, which are retained in the form of soft processes with small horny points.
The gills then shrivel up, the creature begins to crawl, and gradually passes through the different transformations to the complete Amblystoma form.
In this treatment the intermediaries shrivel into the form of a mere space of separation, while the idea and object retain only the logical distinctness of being the end-terms that are separated.
For the instant his very blood ran cold; he appeared to shrivel up.
Horses fell, or ran about neighing; men flung up their hands and died in that first awful minute of consternation, and the little column seemed to shrivel away as if consumed by the flame which struck it, front and flank and rear.
Why is it that the leaves which used to stand firm and fresh like those of the flowering clover, have begun to shrivel and turn yellow?
We only know that as we bring the judgment, the motive, the aim that were ours, not His, into contact with Him, they shrivel and wither like the dying leaves.
Yes; when the seed is ripe it fills up the whole of the husk--there is no room left for anything else: the walls shrivel to a mere shell.
