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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.

A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.

eing molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material. Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. Bacon. The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. C. Wordsworth. Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort. -- Fic"ti…

To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.

One who finestills.

In a flighty manner.

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

ers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. Lyell.

A little fort; a blockhouse. [Obs.] Spenser.

A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.

A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.

In a frosty manner.

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

A gross, fat, unwieldy person. [Obs.] F. Junius.

Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.] Talkers and futile persons. Bacon.