frowner

[Eng. frown; -er.] One who frowns or scowls; one who shows displeasure in his looks. "That Pharisaic frowner at the boy." Byrom: Christ among the Doctors. *frown-fül, a. [Eng. frown; -ful(1).] Frowning; expre ive of displeasure, sternne , or severity. frown-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [FROWN, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The expre ion of displeasure, se verity, or sternne by a frown; a frown. frown-ing-lý, adv. [Eng. frowning; -ly.] In a frowning manner; with a frown; sternly; with a look of displeasure. *frown-y, a . [Eng.frown; -y.] Given to frowning; stern, severe. birch-tree hath slender reason to doubt."-Browne: Vulgar Errors. 2. The act or proce of fertilizing or rendering productive; fertilization. the prevalent "As may be discovered from fructification of plants thereby."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iii., ch. xxi. II. Bot .: The fruit and its parts. Often used of cryptogamous plants, but also of those which are phanerogamous, when its meaning is so extended as to embrace the parts of the flower as well as of the fruit. fruc-ti-fied, pa. par. oza. [FRUCTIFY.] fruc-ti-fy, *fruc-ti-fie, v . t . & i . [Fr. fructifier , from Lat. fructifico , from fructus =fruit, and facio =to make; Sp.fructificar ; Ital. fructificare .] A. Trans.: To make fruitful or productive; to fertilize; to cause to bear fruit. "The legal levies the sovereign raises are as vapours which the sun exhales, which fall down in sweet showers to fructify the earth."- Howell : Vocal Forest. B. In trans.: To become or be fruitful or productive; to bear fruit. "Those parts that do fructify in us." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 2. fruc-tip-a-rous, a. [Lat. fruct (us) = fruit, i connective, and Lat. pario =to produce.] Bot .: Producing as a monstrosity several fruits metamorphosed from one. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0193.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] fructist früct-Ist, 8. [Lat. fruct (us) = fruit, and Eng. (Rees: Cyclop .) frŭct-ōse, subst. [Latin fruct (us) = fruit; -ose. ( Chem.)] Chem.: Sugar of fruit, an uncrystallizable sugar, identical in composition and optical rotatory power with the mixture of levo-glucose and dextro-glucose obtained from cane-sugar by the action of acids.