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Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

Ferruginous. [R.]

Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron. Boyle.

A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.

A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and wearing.

To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] Coleridge.

The soldering ir uniting of me [R.] Coleridge.

To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry. They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro. Milton.

A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

One who maintains or attends a ferry.

Fierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fourth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

Fertility. Sir P. Sidney.

To fertilize; to fecundate. Sir T. Browne.

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…

The act or process of rendering fertile.

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.

One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace.