fructed (frukted)

[ Whether the statement as to Worcesters hire bowmen bearing as their badge at Agin court a pear tree fructed rests upon good authority. N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 105. fructescence (fruk-tes'ens), n. [=Sp. Pg.fruc tescencia , fructus , fruit, + -escence, inceptive noun termination.] The fruiting of a plant; also, the time when the fruit of a plant attains maturity; the fruiting season. fructicist (fruk'ti-sist), n. [L. fructus , fruit, +-c- ist .] A botanist who founds cla ification upon points of resemblance and difference in fruits. Also called fructist . But in the second edition of his Method us (1703) he [Ray] followed Rivinus and Tournefort in taking the flower instead of the fruit as his basis of cla ification; he was no longer a fructicist but a corollist. Encyc. Brit., XX. 301. Swift, Progre of Beauty, fructiculose (fruk-tik'ū-lōs), a. [ See! on the floor, what frouzy patches rest! What nauseous fragments on yon fractured chest! Crabbe, Works, I. 48. Hair very frousy and brushed back from the forehead. Jour. of Education, XVIII. 389. The lazy, frowzy women, the worthle men, and idle, loafing boys of the neighborhood, gathered round to wit How ells, Venetian Life, xv. frowy.-3. Froward; vard; pee ne the encounter. 2. Musty; rank; frowy. -3 vish; surly. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] froytert, n. [A var. of fraiter.] Same as fraiter. Concernynge the fare of their frouter I did tell the afore partly. Roy and Barlow , Rede me and be nott Wroth, p. 83. froze (frōz). Preterit of freezel . frozen (frō'zn), (fro'zn), p . a . [ME. frosen (= Dan. fro en Sw. frusen ), a later form (accom. to the pret. and inf. with s) of froren , ren , pp. of freósan , freeze: see freezel , and frore, froren.] 1. Congealed by cold; converted into or covered with ice. That ki is comfortle As frozen water to a starved snake. Shak., Tit. And., iii. 1. Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walk'd, Larger than human on the frozen hills. Tennyson, Pa ing of Arthur. 2. Cold; frosty; frigid; subject to severe frost: as, the frozen climates of the north. So violent was the wind (that extreame frozen time) that the Boat sunke. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 217. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper , Expostulation, 1. 20. 3. Chill or cold in manner; void of sympathy; wanting in feeling or interest; chilling. They were solicitors of men to fasts.. and as it were [to] conferences in secret with God by prayers, not framed according to the frozen manner of the world, but expre ing such fervent desires as might even force God to hearken unto them. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., viii. And thou, a lunatic lean-witted fool,. Dar'st with thy frozen admonition Make pale our cheek. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 1. She touch'd her girl, who hied Acro , and begg'd and came back satisfied. The rich she had let pa with frozen stare. M. Arnold, West London. 4. Void of natural heat or vigor; numbed; hence, void of pa ion or emotion. Even here, where frozen chastity retires, Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. * fructiculosus , fructiculus , dim. of L. fructus , fruit: see fruit.] In bot., producing much fruit; loaded with fruit. Hooker . Fructidor (F. pron. frük-te-dor'), n. [F., fructus , fruit, + Gr. δώρον , a gift.) The twelfth month of the French republican calendar (see calendar), beginning, in 1794, on August 18th, and ending September 16th. fructiferous (fruk-tif'e-rus), a. [= F. fructi fère = Sp. fructifero = Pg.fructifero = It. fruttifero, fructifer , fructus , fruit, + ferre = E. bear1 .] Bearing or producing fruit. Some experiments may be fitly enough called luciferous, and others fructiferous . Boyle, Works, III. 423. fructifiable (fruk'ti-fi-a-bl), a. [ fructify + -able.] Capable of bearing fruit. Davies . Say the fig-tree does not bear so soon as it is planted, but now it is grown fructifiable . Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 178. fructification (frukti-fi-ka's hon), n . [= F. fructification = Sp. fructificacion = Pg. fructi ficação = It. fruttificazione , tificatio (n-), fructificare , bear fruit: see fructi fy.] 1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying; fecundation. Rain water, appearing pure and empty, is full of seminal principles, and carrieth vital atoms of plants and animals in it, as may be discovered from several insects gen tion of plants thereby. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 21. erated in rain water [and] from the prevalent fructifica As soon as the flower ( Cephalanthera grandiflora ) is fully fertilized, the small distal portion of the labellum rises up, shuts the triangular door, and again perfectly encloses the organs of fructification. Darwin, Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 82. 2. Specifically, in bot .: (a) The production of fruit by a plant; fruiting. (b) The result of fruiting; the fruit of a plant. (c) The organs concerned in the proce of fruiting; the pistils or female organs which develop into the fruit. That part of the cane which shoots up into the fructifi . cation is called by planters its arrow, having been probably used for that purpose by the Indians. Grainger, Sugar Cane, i., note. fructificative (fruk'ti-fi-ka-tiv), a. [= Pg. fructificativo; as fructification + -ive.] Capable of fructifying. frugality II. trans. To make fruitful; render productive; fertilize: as, to fructify the earth. Let a man, out of the mightine of his spirit, fructify foreign countries with his blood, for the good of his own, and thus he shall be answered. Beau. and Fl . , King and No King, ii. 1. fructiparous (fruk-tip'a-rus), a . [ fructus , fruit, + parere , produce.] In bot . , producing an abnormal number of pistils or fruits from a single flower. [Rare.]