[ After Thomas Blanchard, American inventor. ] (Mach.) A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. carde esculent thistle. ] 1. The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a white wine grape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. dry white Chablis-type table wine made from Chardonnay grapes.
Syn. -- Pinot Chardonnay. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure. ] 1. A garden. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. --
Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots. --
Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The cultivation of orchards. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Orchards, in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who cultivates an orchard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. pilseir, W. pilcod minnows. ] (Zool.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Poach to stab. ] [ Written also pocard, pochard. ] (Zool.) (a) A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water widgeon, or red-headed widgeon. (b) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Red-crested poachard (Zool.), an Old World duck (Branta rufina). --
Scaup poachard, the scaup duck. --
Tufted poachard, a scaup duck (Aythya cristata, or Fuligula cristata), native of Europe and Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Poachard. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) A fictious name for a party, real or fictious, to an act or proceeding. Other names were formerly similarly used, as John-a-Nokes, John o', or of the, Nokes, or Noakes, John-a-Stiles, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]