Part 368

They warmed their frozen feet.

Dryden.

2. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

3. Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.]

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.

Fruc"tu*a`tion (-"shn), n. Produce; fruit. [R.]

Fruc"tu*ous (?), a. [L. fructuosus: cf, F. fructueux.] Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.]

Nothing fructuous or profitable.

Chaucer.