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   Peach , v. t. [See Appeach, Impeach.] To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.]
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   Peach, v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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   If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
   Shak.
   
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   Peach , n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. pêche, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach.  Cf. Persian, and Parsee.]
   (Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone.  In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
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   The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit.
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   The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.
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   Guinea peach, or  Sierra Leone peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. -- Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree (Bactris speciosa). -- Peach color, the pale red color of the peach blossom. -- Peach-tree borer (Zool.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Aegeria exitiosa, or  Sannina, exitiosa) of the family Aegeriidae, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself.  See Illust. under Borer.
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