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Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton.

A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit. The cornices consist of frutages and festoons. Evelyn.

The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.

A book in seven languages.

A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

Having seven angles or sides. Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.

A Linnæan order of plants having seven pistils.

Having seven pistils.

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. Part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence. Some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world. Shak.

Hospitality. [Obs.] Spenser.

ipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon.

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.

A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

To body of knights, taken collectively.

The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.

The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.

A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will. [Obs.]

A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages. [Prov. Eng.]