Be not ever frozen, coy.
T. Carew.
Fro"zen*ness, n. A state of being frozen.
Frub"ish (?), v. t. [See Furbish.] To rub up: to furbish. [Obs.] Beau.
c& Et.
Fruc"ted (?), a. [L. fructus fruit. See Fruit.] (Her.) Bearing fruit;
-- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.
Fruc*tes"cence (?), n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Bot.) The maturing or
ripening of fruit. [R.] Martyn.
Fruc*tic"u*lose` (?), a. Fruitful; full of fruit.
||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 VendÈmiaire.
||Fruc*tif"er*uos (?), a. [L. fructifer; fructus fruit + ferre to bear;
||cf. F. fructifËre.] Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.
||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.
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Fruc"ti*fy (frk"t*f), v. i. [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus
fruit + -ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit,
and Fact.] To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.
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.
Fruc*tose" (frk*ts" or frk"ts), n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Chem.) Fruit
sugar; levulose. [R.]
Fruc"tu*a*ry (frk"t**r), n.; pl. Fructuaries (- rz). [L. fructuarius.]
One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries.
Prynne.