fruit bearer

[Eng. fruit, and bearer.] A tree or plant which produces fruit; a fruitful plant. "Trees, especially fruit bearers, are often infected with the measles." - Mortimer: Husbandry. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f 1. Producing fruits; fertile; productive; prolific. "Nature multiplies Her fertile growth, and by disburdening grows More fruitful ." Milton: P. L., v. 319. "We find a tall and sickly stalk, But not the fruitful ear." IMG:content-0197.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The quality of being prolific; fecundity. "The godde , present at the match she made, She ble ed the bed such fruitfulne conveyed." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses , x. IMG:content-0198.png:[blocks in formation] "Contemplation is a fruitive po e ion of verities, which flowers the minde doth no longer gather or collect." -Mountagu: Devout E ays , pt. i., tr. xxi., § 4. frûit-le , *fruyt-les, a . [ Eng.fruit ; -le .] *I. Literally : 2. Not prolific; barren; not bearing offspring. "The Spaniards of Mexico, for the first forty years, could not make our kind of wheat bear seed; but it grew up as the trees, and was fruitle ."-Raleigh: History of IMG:content-0199.png:[blocks in formation] *frume, *fro me, s . [A. S. fruma .] The beginning. *fru-ment, s. [FRUMENTY.] frû-men-tā-çě-oŭs (or ceo us as shus), a . [Lat. frumentaceus , from frumentum =corn; Ital. frumentacio ; Fr. frumentace .] Of the nature of, resembling, or composed of wheat or other cereal. *frû-men-tär-i-ous, a . [Lat. frumentarius , from frumentum corn; Sp. & Ital. frumentario .) Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. frû-men-ta-tion, s. [Lat. frumentatio , from frumentum =corn.] Roman Antig. A gift or large of corn given to the people to quiet them when excited or uneasy. frû'-men-tỹ, *fru-ment, *fru-ment-ie, *fur- me-ty, *fru-me-tar-y, s. 10. Fr. froumenté , from froument wheat; Latin frumentum=corn; Sp. frumentada .] "[He] shall be able to abas he a right worthie man, and make him at his wittes ende, through the sodaine quicke and vnlooked frumpe giuen."- Wilson : Arte of Rhetor i que , p. 137. 2. A cro -tempered, old-fashioned woman. "Besides that, sometimes jealous frumps Will put me into doleful dumps." *frump, v . t . & i. [FRUMP, 8.] A. Trans.: Τo mock, to jeer, to insult. "Even hee, who being now farre stept in yeeres, Caius was wont to frump and flout in most opprobrious terms." fru-i-tion, s. [O. Fr., from Lat. fructus , pa. par. of fruor =to enjoy; Sp. fruicion ; Ital. fruizione .] Use, enjoyment, or po e ion of anything, especially -P. Holland: Suet on i us , p. 149. IMG:content-0200.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0201.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0202.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0203.jpg:[blocks in formation] =a little piece.] Bot.: One of the joints in a Diatom. *frŭs'-tu-lent, a . [Lat. frustulum .] Abounding in little pieces or fragments.