Part 4221

<h1>Feculency</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fec"u*len*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Feculence.</def>

<h1>Feculent</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fec"u*lent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>faeculentus</ets>, fr. <ets>faecula</ets>: cf. F. <ets>f\'82culent</ets>. See <er>Fecula</er>.]</ety> <def>Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.</def>

<blockquote>Both his hands most filthy <b>feculent</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fecund</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fec"und</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fecundus</ets>, from the root of <ets>fetus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>f\'82cond</ets>. see <er>Fetus</er>.]</ety> <def>Fruitful in children; prolific.</def>

<i>Graunt.</i>

<h1>Fecundate</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fec"un*date</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fecundated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fecundating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>fecundare</ets>, fr. <ets>fecundus</ets>. See <er>Fecund</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make fruitful or prolific.</def>

<i>W. Montagu.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; <as>as, in flowers the pollen <ex>fecundates</ex> the ovum through the stigma</as>.</def>

<h1>Fecundation</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fec`un*da"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>f\'82condation</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.</def>

<h1>Fecundify</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fe*cun"di*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Fecund</ets> + <ets>-fy</ets>.]</ety> <def>To make fruitful; to fecundate.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Fecundity</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fe*cun"di*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fecunditas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>f\'82condit\'82</ets>. See <er>Fecund</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially <fld>(Biol.)</fld>, the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The power of germinating; as in seeds.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; <as>as, the <ex>fecundity</ex> of God's creative power</as>.</def>

<i>Bentley.</i>

<h1>Fed</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Feed</er>.</def>

<h1>Fedary</h1> <Xpage=549>

<hw>Fed"a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A feodary.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Federal</h1> <Xpage=549>