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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Peach \Peach\ (p[=e]ch), v. t. [See Appeach, Impeach.] To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] --Foxe. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Peach \Peach\, v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

    If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

  3.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Peach \Peach\ (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[^e]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.] 1. (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. [1913 Webster]

    2. The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit. [1913 Webster]

    3. The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit. [PJC]

    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. [1913 Webster]