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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Fruit'age, n. p. 547Fruit collectively; various fruits; fruitery. “Ambrosial fruitage.” Milton.Fruit'-būd, n. p. 547The bud that produces fruit.Fruit'er-er, n. p. 547One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.Fruit'er-ess, n. p. 547A woman who sells fruit.Fruit'er-y, n. p. 547Fruit collectively taken; fruitage. Philips. 2. A fruit-loft; a repository for fruit. Johnson.Fruit'ful, a. p. 547Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; richly productive; prolific; plenteous; as, fruitful soil; a fruitful tree or season; a fruitful wife; fruitful in expedients or in crimes. “Your fruitful…Fruit'ful-ly, adv. p. 547In such a manner as to be prolific; plenteously; abundantly.Fruit'ful-ness, n. p. 547The state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance; productiveness; fertility; fecundity. “Fruitfulness and a liberal heart.” Shak. “The great fruitfulness of the poet’s fancy.” Addison.Fru-i'tion, n. p. 547Use or possession of any thing, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. “Capacity of fruition.” Rogers. “God-like fruition.” Milton.…Fru'i-tive, a. p. 547Enjoying. [Obs.] Boyle.Fruit'less, a. p. 547Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless…Fruit'less-ly, adv. p. 547In a fruitless manner; without any valuable effect; idly; vainly; unprofitably.Fruit'less-ness, n. p. 547The quality of being fruitless, or unprofitable.Fruit'-lōft, n. p. 547A loft for the preservation of fruit.Fruit'-tree, n. p. 547A tree cultivated for its fruit; especially, one producing fruit agreeable to the taste.Fruit'y, a. p. 547Resembling fruit, or the taste of fruit. Dickens.Fru'men-tā'ceoŭs, a. p. 547Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.Fru'men-tā'ri-ŏŭs, a. p. 547Pertaining to wheat or grain. [Obs.] Coles.Fru'men-tā'tion, n. p. 547(Rom. Antiq.) A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.Fru'men-ty, n. p. 547Food made of wheat boiled in milk, and seasoned with sugar, cinnamon, &c. Halliwell.Frŭmp, n. p. 547A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.] B. & Fl. 2. A cross-tempered, old-fashioned female; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.Frŭmp, v. t. p. 547To insult; to flout. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.Frŭmp'er, n. p. 547A mocker. [Obs.] Colgrave.Frŭmp'ish, a. p. 547Cross tempered; scornful. [Obs.] 2. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.Frŭsh, v. t. p. 547To bruise or dash violently to pieces. I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock its rivets all, Or I'll be master of it. Shak.Frūsh, a. p. 547Broken or crushed; as, the thatch of a room becomes frush. Prof. Wilson.Frŭsh, n. p. 547Noise of things dashing or dashed together. [Rare.] Horrible uproar and frush Of rocks that meet in battle. Southey.Frŭsh, n. p. 547(Far.) A sort of tender substance in the middle of the sole of a horse; the frog. 2. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse’s foot;—also called thrush.Frŭs'tra-ble, a. p. 547Capable of being frustrated or defeated. [Rare.]Frŭs-trā'ne-ŏŭs, a. p. 547Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] Sir T. More. South.Frŭs'trāte, v. t. p. 548To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, his enemy was frustrated; to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.…Früs'trate, a. p. 548Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable, null; void; nugatory; of no effect. “Our frustrate search.” Shak.Früs'trate-ly, adv. p. 548In vain. [Obs.] Vicars.Frus-trā'tion, n. p. 548The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's attempt or design.Frŭs'tra-tive, a. p. 548Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.Früs'tra-to-ry, a. p. 548Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.Früst'ü-lent, a. p. 548Abounding in fragments.Früs'tum, n. p. 548(Geom.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the top; or, the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, &c., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each…Frŭt'age, n. p. 548A picture of fruit; a fruit-piece. The cornices consist of fruitages and festoons. Evelyn. 2. A confection of fruit. Nares.Fru-tē'scent, a. p. 548(Bot.) Becoming shrubby, or having the appearance of a shrub; as, a frutescent stem. Martyn.Frŭ'tex, n. p. 548(Bot.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub. Milne.Frŭ'ti-cant, a. p. 548Full of shoots. [Obs.] Evelyn.Frū'ti-cōse' or Frū'ti-cōus, a. p. 548(Bot.) Pertaining to shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrub-like; as, a fruticous stem. Gray.Fru-tĭc'ū-lōse', a. p. 548(Bot.) Like a small shrub. Gray.Frȳ, v. t. p. 548To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a frying-pan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.Frȳ, v. i. p. 548To be heated and agitated, as meat in a frying-pan; to undergo the action of fire or extreme heat; to simmer; hence, to ferment, to foam, or to dissolve with heat. “With crackling flames a caldron…Frȳ, n. p. 548A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; a large number. “The fry of children young.” Spenser. “To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.” Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a…Fry'ing-păn, n. p. 548A pan with a long handle, used for frying meat and vegetables.Fū'age, n. p. 548The same as FUMAGE.Fū'ar, n. p. 548A small freeholder of land in fee. [Scot.] W. Scott.Fŭb, n. p. 548A plump young person. [Obs.] [Written also fubs.]Fŭb, v. t. p. 548To put off; to delay; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.Fŭb'ber-y, n. p. 548Act of cheating; deception. Marston.Fŭb'by or Fŭb'sy, a. p. 548Plump; chubby. [Eng.] Nichols. Her daughter, a fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Madam D'Artlay.Fū'cate or Fū'cā-ted, a. p. 548Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show. Johnson.Fūch'si-ā, n. p. 548(Bot.) A genus of flowering plants, named in honor of Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist. F. coccinia is one of the most elegant of deciduous greenhouse shrubs; the young wood and leaves are tinged…Fu-cīv'o-rous, a. p. 548Eating, or subsisting on, sea-weed; as, fucivorous animals. Dana.Fū'coid, n. p. 548(Palæon.) Fossil sea-weed. Hitchcock.Fū'coid or Fū-coid'al, a. p. 548Pertaining to, or resembling, seaweed.Fū'cus, n. p. 548A paint; a dye; hence, false show, B. Jonson. 2. (Bot.) A genus of sea-weeds of a tough, leathery kind, and usually of a dull, brownish-green color; sea-wrack, and other species.