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Webster 1913 Edition

Gourd

Gourd

,
Noun.
[F.
gourde
, OF.
cougourde
,
gouhourde
, fr. L.
cucurbita
gourd (cf. NPr.
cougourdo
); perh. akin to corbin basket, E.
corb
. Cf.
Cucurbite
.]
1.
(Bot.)
A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order
Cucurbitaceæ
; and especially the bottle gourd (
Lagenaria vulgaris
) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
2.
A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
Chaucer.
Bitter gourd
,
colocynth.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gourd

GOURD

,
Noun.
A plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucurbita. There are several species, as the bottle-gourd, the shell-gourd or calabash, the warted gourd, &c. The shell is sometimes used for a piggin or for a bottle.

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