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Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. "The foodful earth." Dryden. Bent by its foodful burden [the corn]. Glover.

agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

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. T…

Turf; soil; ground; sod. Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine. Milton.

Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." Prior.

sitory for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain. The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson.

s growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result. Nature multiplies her fertile growth. Milton.

A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel grouse (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. That the spent earth may gather heart again. Dryden.

es consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." Shak.

Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile. [R.]

To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. Sir M. Hale.

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

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

The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness. The infertility or noxiousness of the soil. Sir M. Hale.

ood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris. Shak.

A meadow. A mede All full of freshe flowers, white and reede. Chaucer. To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary, wandering steps he leads. Addison.

A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.