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To con (a ship). [Obs.]

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]

Self-impregnation. Darwin.

Eloquent. [Archaic]

Eloquement; full of words. [Archaic]

Eloquence; readiness of speech. [Archaic]

Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.

To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.

The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Unpleassantness; disagreeableness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Irascible; choleric. "Iracund people." Carlyle.

Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.

The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness.

Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation.