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The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.

One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.

h to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott.

Containing or composed of fossils.

The process of becoming fossil.

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

Causing cold; producing or generating cold. Quincy.

Producing fronds.

Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.

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 bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.

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

Producing smoke.

One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

To subject to the action of smoke. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

Shaped like a small fungus.

Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

Rascally; scandalous. [R.] "Furciferous knaves." De Quincey.

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.