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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.

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

To praise inordinately; to flatter. They demi-deify and fume him so. Cowper.

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [R.]

Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.

conciliate. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matt. xviii. 15. To gratify the queen, and gained the court. Dryden.

animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [Obs.] Shak.

ital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

; as, a man of genius. Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifyng power. Coleridge.

A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.

A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.

To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate. A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him. Addison.

ury by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disc…