Fruit"ful (?), a. Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing
results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or
season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. --
Fruit"ful*ness, n.
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Gen. i. 28.
[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful.
Milton.
The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.
Addison.
Syn. -- Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich;
abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.
Fruit"ing, a. Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
Fruit"ing, n. The bearing of fruit.
Fru*i"tion (?), n. [OF. fruition, L. fruitio, enjoyment, fr. L. frui,
p. p. fruitus, to use or enjoy. See Fruit, n.] Use or possession of
anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or
satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of
fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton.
Where I may have fruition of her love.
Shak.
Fru"i*tive (?), a. [See Fruition.] Enjoying; possessing. [Obs.] Boyle.
Fruit"less (?), a. 1. Lacking, 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;
unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours.
Milton.
Syn. -- Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual; vain;
idle; profitless. See Useless.
-- Fruit"less*ly, adv. -- Fruit"lness*ness, n.
Fruit'y (?), a. Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also,
fruitful. Dickens.
Fru"men*ta"ceous (?), a. [L. frumentaceus, fr. frumentum corn or grain,
from the root of frux fruit: cf. F. frumentacÈ. See Frugal.] Made of,
or resembling, wheat or other grain.
Fru`men*ta"ri*ous (?), a. [L. frumentarius.] Of or pertaining to wheat
or grain. [R.] Coles.
Fru`men*ta"tion (?), n. [L. frumentatio.] (Rom. Antiq.) A largess of
grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
Fru"men*ty (?), n. [OF. fromentÈe, fr. L. frumentum. See
Frumentaceous.] Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar,
plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.
Frump (?), v. t. [Cf. Prov. E. frumple to wrinkle, ruffle, D.
frommelen.] To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Frump, n. 1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or
flout. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
[Colloq.] Halliwell.
Frump"er (?), n. A mocker. [Obs.] Cotgrave.