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by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.

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.

To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward.

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones. [R.] Sylvester.

To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.

a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.

ing glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

in thought or with the heart, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore. That we for thee may glorify the Lord. Shak.

To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.

urth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognition of special services rendered to the Holy See. -- Golden rule. (a) The rule of doing as we would have others do to us. Cf. Luke vi. 31. (b) The rule of proportion, or rule of three. -- Golden samphire (Bot.), a composite plant (Inula crithmoides), f…

A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal.

To render grammatical. Fuller.

To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized. T. Warton.

A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion.