FRUITION
FRUI'TION, noun [from Latin fruor, to use or enjoy.]Use accompanied with pleasure, corporeal or intellectual; enjoyment; the pleasure derived from use or possession.If the affli...
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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FRUITIVE
FRUITIVE, adjective Enjoying.
FRUITLESS
FRUITLESS, adjective1. Not bearing fruit; barren; destitute of fruit; as a fruitless plant.2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as a ...
FRUITLESSLY
FRUITLESSLY, adjective [from fruitless.] Without any valuable effect; idly; vainly; unprofitably.
FRUITLESSNESS
FRUITLESSNESS, noun The quality of being vain or unprofitable.
FRUMENTACEOUS
FRUMENTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin frumentaceus.]1. Made of wheat, or like grain.2. Resembling wheat, in respect to leaves, ears, fruit, and the like.
FRUMENTARIOUS
FRUMENTA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin frumentarius, from frumentum, corn.]Pertaining to wheat or grain.
FRUMENTATION
FRUMENTA'TION, noun [Latin frumentatio.] Among the Romans, a largess of grain bestowed on the people to quiet them when uneasy or turbulent.
FRUMENTY
FRU'MENTY, noun [Latin frumentum, wheat or grain.] Food made of wheat boiled in milk.
FRUMP
FRUMP, noun A joke, jeer or flout. [Not used.]FRUMP, verb transitive To insult. [Not in use.]
FRUSH
FRUSH, verb transitive To bruise; to crush. obsoleteFRUSH, noun In farriery, a sort of tender horn that grows in the middle of the sole of a horse, at some distance from the toe...
FRUSTRABLE
FRUS'TRABLE, adjective [See Frustrate.] That may be frustrated or defeated.
FRUSTRANEOUS
FRUSTRA'NEOUS, adjective [See Frustrate.] Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Little used.]
FRUSTRATE
FRUS'TRATE, verb transitive [Latin frustro.]1. Literally, to break or interrupt; hence, to defeat; to disappoint; to balk; to bring to nothing; as, to frustrate a plan, design o...
FRUSTRATED
FRUS'TRATED, participle passive Defeated; disappointed; rendered vain or null.
FRUSTRATING
FRUS'TRATING, participle present tense Defeating; disappointing; making vain or of no effect.
FRUSTRATION
FRUSTRA'TION, noun The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as the frustration of one's attempt or design.
FRUSTRATIVE
FRUS'TRATIVE, adjective Tending to defeat; fallacious.
FRUSTRATORY
FRUS'TRATORY, adjective That makes void; that vacates or renders null; as a frustatory appeal.
FRUSTUM
FRUS'TUM, noun [Latin See Frustrate.] a piece or part of a solid body separated from the rest. The frustum of a cone, is the part that remains after the top is cut off by a plan...
FRUTESCENT
FRUTES'CENT, adjective [Latin frutex, a shrub.] In botany, from herbaceous becoming shrubby; as a frutescent stem.
FRUTEX
FRU'TEX, noun [Latin] In botany, a shrub; a plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree.
FRUTICANT
FRU'TICANT, adjective Full of shoots.
FRUTICOUS
FRU'TICOUS, adjective [Latin fruiticosus.] Shrubby; as a fruticous stem.
FRY
FRY, verb transitive [Latin frigo. Gr.]To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetable...
FRYING
FRY'ING, participle present tense Dressing in a fryingpan; heating; agitating.
FRYINGPAN
FRY'INGPAN, noun a pan with a long handle, used for frying meat and vegetables.