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To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.

Fruitful; producing abudantly. [R.] Thomson.

The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] Beattie.

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

In a fertile or fruitful manner.

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertilit…

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron.

sirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun. And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Gen. i. 22. The Syrians filled the country. 1 Kings xx. 27.

To flood; to overflow; to cover with water. Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands. Dryden.

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

Eatable; fruitful. [R.] Chapman.

Fruitful; full of fruit.

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

Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.] Nothing fructuous or profitable. Chaucer. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. Dr. H. More.

Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.

A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak.

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

Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.