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To render formal.

To render misshapen. [Obs.] Gower.

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.

metimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. Clarendon. Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. Dryden. Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke. Milton.

Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.

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.

herein obscurely Cæsar''s ambition shall be glanced at. Shak. He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. Swift.

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.