Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FRU'I-TIVE, a.

Enjoying. Boyle.

FRUIT'LESS, a.

1. Not bearing fruit; barren; destitute of fruit; as, a fruitless plant. Ralegh.
2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
3. Having no offspring. Shak.

FRUIT'LESS-LY, adv. [from fruitless.]

Without any valuable effect; idly; vainly; unprofitably. Dryden.

FRUIT'LESS-NESS, n.

The quality of being vain or unprofitable.

FRUIT'-LOFT, n.

A place for the preservation of fruit.

FRUIT'-TIME, n.

The time for gathering fruit.

FRUIT'-TREE, n.

A tree cultivated for its fruit, or a tree whose principal value consists in the fruit it produces, as the cherry-tree, apple-tree, pear-tree. The oak and beech produce valuable fruit, but the fruit is not their principal value.

FRUIT'Y, a.

Resembling fruit. Dickens.

FRU-MEN-TA'CEOUS, a. [L. frumentaceus.]

1. Made of wheat, or like grain.
2. Resembling wheat, in respect to leaves, ears, fruit, and the like. Encyc.

FRU'MEN-TA'RI-OUS, a. [L. frumentarius, from frumentum, corn.]

Pertaining to wheat or grain.

FRU-MEN-TA'TION, n. [L. frumentatio.]

Among the Romans, a largess of grain bestowed on the people to quiet them when uneasy or turbulent. Encyc.

FRU'MEN-TY, n. [L. frumentum, wheat or grain.]

Food made of wheat boiled in milk.

FRUMP, n.

A joke, jeer or flout. [Not used.] Bp. Hall.

FRUMP, v.t.

To insult. [Not in use.] Beaum.

FRUMP'ER, n.

A mocker. [Not used.]

FRUSH, n. [G. frosch, a frog.]

In farriery, a sort of tender horn that grows in the middle of the sole of a horse, at some distance from the toe, dividing into two branches, and running toward the heel in the form of a fork. Farrier's Dict.

FRUSH, v.t. [Fr. froisser.]

To bruise; to crush. [Obs.] Shak.

FRUS'TRA-BLE, a. [See Frustrate.]

That may be frustrated or defeated.

FRUS-TRA'NE-OUS, a. [See Frustrate.]

Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Little used.] More. South.

FRUS'TRATE, a. [participial adj.]

Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; void; of no effect. Hooker. Dryden.

FRUS'TRATE, v.t. [L. frustro; Fr. frustrer; Sp. frustrar; allied probably to Fr. froisser, briser, Arm. brousta, freuza, to break. Class Rd or Rs.]

1. Literally, to break or interrupt; hence, to defeat; to disappoint; to balk; to bring to nothing; as, to frustrate a plan, design or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
2. To disappoint; applied to persons.
3. To make null; to nullify; to render of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

FRUS'TRA-TED, pp.

Defeated; disappointed; rendered vain or null.

FRUS'TRA-TING, ppr.

Defeating; disappointing; making vain or of no effect.

FRUS-TRA'TION, n.

The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's attempt or design. South.

FRU'STRA-TIVE, a.

Tending to defeat; fallacious. Dict.