Frozenness
(Fro"zen*ness), n. A state of being frozen.
Frubish
(Frub"ish) v. t. [See Furbish.] To rub up: to furbish. [Obs.] Beau. c& Et.
Fructed
(Fruc"ted) a. [L. fructus fruit. See Fruit.] (Her.) Bearing fruit; — said of a tree or plant so
represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.
Fructescence
(Fruc*tes"cence) n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Bot.) The maturing or ripening of fruit. [R.] Martyn.
Fructiculose
(Fruc*tic"u*lose`) a. Fruitful; full of fruit.
Fructidor
(||Fruc`ti`dor") n. [F., fr. L. fructus fruit.] The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; —
commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.
Fructiferuos
(||Fruc*tif"er*uos) a. [L. fructifer; fructus fruit + ferre to bear; cf. F. fructifère.] Bearing or
producing fruit. Boyle.
Fructification
(||Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion) n. [L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.]
1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
The prevalent fructification of plants.
Sir T. Brown. 2. (Bot.) (a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
(b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
Fructify
(Fruc"ti*fy) v. i. [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + -ficare akin to L. facere to make.
See Fruit, and Fact.] To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.
Fructify
(Fruc"ti*fy), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fructified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fructifying.] To make fruitful; to
render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
Fructose
(Fruc*tose") (fruk*tos" or fruk"tos), n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Chem.) Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]
Fructuary
(Fruc"tu*a*ry) n.; pl. Fructuaries (- riz). [L. fructuarius.] One who enjoys the profits, income,
or increase of anything.
Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries.
Prynne. Fructuation
(Fruc"tu*a`tion) n. Produce; fruit. [R.]
Fructuous
(Fruc"tu*ous) a. [L. fructuosus: cf, F. fructueux.] Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.]
Nothing fructuous or profitable.
Chaucer. — Fruc"tu*ous*ly, adv. — Fruc"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Fructure
(Fruc"ture) n. [L. frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy. See Fruit, n.] Use; fruition; enjoyment. [Obs.]
Cotgrave.
Frue vanner
(Frue" van"ner) [Etymol. uncertain.] (Mining) A moving, inclined, endless apron on which
ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
Frugal
(Fru"gal) a. [L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the
dative of frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See Fruit, n.]
