Fer"ti*lizer (?), n. 1. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the
fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace.
2. That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures,
as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
||Fer"u*la (?), n. [L. ferula giant fennel (its stalks were used in
||punishing schoolboys), rod, whip, fr. ferire to strike; akin to OHG.
||berjan, Icel. berja. Cf. Ferule.] 1. A ferule. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.