fructuousnesst (fruktuusnes)

or quality of being fructuous or fruitful; fruitfulne ; fertility. Imp. Dict. fructuret (fruktūr), n. [ [ fructus , fruit, + [ = frugal (frö'gal), a. [ No man than hee more frugal of two pretious things in mans life, his time and his revenue. Milton , Hist. Eng., v. Though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. Cowper , John Gilpin. Where fructificative and purely propagative generations 2. Characterized by or indicating economy. of bions proceed alternately from one another, it is also quite natural to speak of alternating generations. De Bary , Fungi (trans.), p. 125. These three made unity so sweet, My frozen heart began to beat, Remembering its ancient heat. ppr. fructifying. [ Pinching and paring he might furnish forth A frugal board, bare sustenance, no more. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 65. Syn. Choice, careful, chary, thrifty. frugality (frö-gal'i-ti), n. [F. frugal ité = Sp. frug alidad = Pg. frug alidade = It. frugal ità , frugal it a (t-)s, economy, thriftine , temper IMG:content-1897.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1898.jpg:[ocr errors] Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell, She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand. Milton , P. L., v. 341. IMG:content-1899.jpg:[blocks in formation] fruit-bearing (fröt' bar" "ing), a. Producing fruit. IMG:content-1900.jpg:[graphic] 3. In a still more limited sense, an edible fruit-bud (fröt'- succulent product of a plant, normally covering and including the seeds, as the apple, orange, lemon, peach, pear, plum, a berry, a melon, etc.; in a collective sense, such products in the ag- gregate. But of all maner of meate, the moost daungerous is that whiche is of fruites (fruitz crudz), as cheres, small cheryse (guingues), great cherise (gascongnes). Du Guez's Introductorie , p. 1073, quoted in Babees Book [(E. E. T. S.), Index, p. 85. Or little pitted speck in garner'd fruit , That rotting inward slowly moulders all. 4. In bot ., the matured ovary of a plant, con- sisting of the seeds and their pericarp, and in- cluding whatever may be incorporated with it; also, the spores of cryptogams and the organs acce ory to them. The kinds of fruit are very nu- merous, and differ greatly in character and degree of com- plexity. They have also received many names, but they may for the most part be grouped under the following cla es: simple fruits , which consist of a single matured pistil; aggregate fruits , composed of a cluster of carpels belonging to the same flower, and crowded together up- on the common receptacle; multiple or collective fruits , formed by the aggregation of the pistils of several flowers into one ma ; and acce ory or anthocarpous fruits , in which the true pericarp (belonging e entially to of the preceding groups) is incorporated with or inclosed by an enlargement of some adjacent organ or organs, which becomes the most conspicuous portion of the fruit. 5. The produce of animals; offspring; young: as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. When a shepe is with frute , hering the thonder she casteth her frute and bringeth it ded to the worlde. The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David;... Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. Ps. cxxxii. 11. King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown. Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 4. 6. A product in general; anything produced by or resulting from effort of any kind, or by or from any cause; outcome, effect, result, or con- bud), n. A bud that contains the germ of fruit; a bud that will, un- der favorable cir- cum stances, pro- duce fruit. fruit-cake (fröt'- kāk), n. 1. A rich sweet cake con- tingut, taining fruit, as raisins, citron, cur- rants, etc.-2. In biol ., an ethalium. IMG:content-1901.jpg:[ocr errors][merged small] IMG:content-1902.jpg:[blocks in formation] Mr. Vane declared the occasion of this meeting,. and the fruit aimed at, viz. a more firm and friendly unit ing of minds. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 211. The final and permanent fruits of liberty are wisdom, moderation, and mercy. Macaulay , Milton. Brandied fruit. See brandied. - Compound fruits, fruit. See forbidden. - Small fruits, fruits raised in such fruits as consist of several ovaries. - Forbidden market-gardens, such as strawberries, raspberries, and fruit (fröt), v. i. [ IMG:content-1903.jpg:[blocks in formation] fruitage (frö'tāj), n. [Formerly also frutage ; fruit , fruit, + -age .] 1. Fruits collectively; fruitery. quisite delicates and dainties, of pati erie, frutages , and confections. Quoted by Brydges , British Bibliographer, IV. 315. Above, beneath, around his haple head, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread. IMG:content-1904.png:[blocks in formation] fruiter (fröʼtèr), n . transportation of fruit. The arrival of a fruiter from New Orleans was cele- brated with bacchanalian orgies. U. S. Cons. Rep . , No. lxviii. (1886), p. 671. fruiterer (frö'ter-ér), n. [ fruit + -er1, -er2, the term. reduplicated as in poulterer, etc. Cf. F. fruitier , a fruit-producer, = Pr. fruchier , fruitier = Sp. frutero = Pg. fruteiro , fruiterer.] Pope , Ody ey, xii. One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits. Now loaded trees resign their annual store, And on the ground the mellow fruitage pour. Beattie , tr. of Virgil's Pastorals, vii. The very same day did I fight with one Sampson Stock- fish, a fruiterer , behind Gray's Inn. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. fruit-alcohol (fröt alkō-hol), n. Alcohol de- rived from the juice of fruit, as distinguished from wood-alcohol, etc. fruit-bat (fröt'bat), n . A fruit-eating or fru- givorous bat of the family Pteropodidæ , or sub- order Frugivora ; a fox-bat or flying-fox. See cut in next column. fruit-bearer (fröt'bar"ėr), n. That which pro- duces fruit. To help thy plants, when the small fruitery seems Exempt from ills, an oriental blast Disastrous flies. J. Philips , Cider, ii. They a ented to Mr. Beckendorff's proposition of visit ing his fruitery . Disraeli , Vivian Grey, vi. 7. fruitesteret, n. [ME.; mod. as if * fruitster , fruit + -ster .] A female seller of fruit. And right anon thanne comen tom be steres, Fetys and smale, and yonge frutesteres. IMG:content-1905.jpg:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] in, or favorable to the growth of fruit, or useful vegetation Fruit-fly (Drosophila ampelophila). (Cro shows natural size.) in general: as, a fruitful country or soil; a fruitful season; fruitful showers. Hilles, knolles,... tries [trees] fruitefull , and cedres alle. Ps. cxlviii. 9 (ME. version). This countrey beinge fruitefull and a bound ante of all thinges was taken by the Scithians. J. Brende , tr. of Quintus Curtius, fol. 140. Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens That one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the next. Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., i. 6. IMG:content-1906.jpg:[blocks in formation]