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A fish; the dragonet.

One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.

One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.

Eloquent. [Archaic]

Eloquement; full of words. [Archaic]

Eloquence; readiness of speech. [Archaic]

Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.

To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

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.

To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.

The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

The state of being impecunious. Thackeray. Sir W. Scott.

Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.

A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before A. D. 1500.

Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Unpleassantness; disagreeableness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Irascible; choleric. "Iracund people." Carlyle.

Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.