apple woman

A woman who sells apples, exhibited by her on a stall or otherwise. "Yonder are two apple-women scolding, and just ready to unco if one another."-Arbuthnot & Pope. apple-yard, s. A place enclosed for the cultivation of apples; an orchard. "But a law which merely alters the criminal procedure may with perfect propriety be ety be made applicable to past as well as to future offences." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., chap. xvi. ăp-pli-ca-ble-ně , s. [Eng. applicable; -ne .] The quality of being applicable to anything. Applicability. "The knowledge of salts may po ibly, by that little part which we have already delivered of its applica blene , be of use in natural philosophy."-Boyle. *ăp'-pli-ca-bly, adv . [Eng. applicable ; -ly .] In an applicable manner. Of such a character, or in such a manner, that it may be fitly applied. (Johnson.)