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Void of heat or appetite ; 
Even here, frozen chaflity retires, 
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. Pope. 
FROZEN O'CEAN, the feas of ice which are fuppof- 
ed to fiirround the two poles of the world ; called the 
Arftic Sea, or North Frozen Ocean ; and the Antarftic 
Sea, or South Frozen Ocean. The former is more gene, 
rally known among feamen by the name of the “ Green, 
land Seas.” 
F.R. S. Fellow of the Royal Society ; 
Who virtu profefs 
Shine in the dignity of F. R. S. Pope. 
FRO'ZES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Vienne: five miles weft of Poitiers. 
FRUCTESCEN'TI A.y. in botany, the fruiting feafon ; 
or the time when vegetables begin to fcatter their ripe 
feeds. 
FRUCTIF'EROUS, adj. ifruEUfer, Lat.] Bearing 
fruit. Ainjworth. 
FRUCTIFICA'TION,/. The aft of caufing or of 
bearing fruit j fecundation; fertility.—That the fap doth 
powerfully rife in the fpring, to put the plant in a capaci¬ 
ty of JruQiJication, he that hath beheld how many gallons 
of water may be drawn from a birch-tree, hath flender 
reafon to doubt. Brown. 
In botany, fruElification, or fruiting, denotes a tempo¬ 
rary part of vegetables, which is appropriated to gene¬ 
ration, by terminating the old, and beginning the new, 
vegetable. The eftence of it confifts in the flower and 
fruit ; and there can be no fructification without anther^ 
Jligma, and feed. When perfedl, it confifts of feven 
f iarts; I. Calyx. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamen. 4. Piftil- 
um. 5. Pericarp. 6. Seed. 7. Receptacle. Of thefe, the 
four firft belong to the flower; the two next to the fruit; 
and the laft is common to both. Foradifplay of thefe 
parts, fee the article Botany, vol. iii. p. 263-289; and 
plates 10 to 15. 
To FRUC'TIFY, v.a. IfruBifier, Fr.] To make 
fruitful; to fertilife.—The legal levies the fovereign 
raifes are as vapours which the fun exhales, which fall 
down infweet fhowers to fruBify the earth. Flo-ixiell. 
Wheree’er fhe looks, behold feme fudden birth. 
Adorns the trees, and/r«d?yM the earth. Granville. 
To FRUC'TIFY, v.n. To bear fruit.—It watereth 
the heart, to the end it mayyrttdZt/y ; maketh the virtuous 
in trouble, full of magnanimity and courage; and ferveth 
as a moft approved remedy againft all doleful and heavy 
accidents wliich befal men in tliis prefent life. Hooker. 
FRUCT'IST,y'. [from the Lat.yh/iSz/s, fruit.] A bo- 
tanift who endeavours to dillinguifti the feveral kinds of 
plants by the fruit or feeds which they produce. 
FRUC'TUOUS, adj. \_fruElueux, Fr. from fruBify.^ 
Fruitful; fertile; impregnating with fertility : 
Apples of price, and plenteous (heaves of corn 
Oft interlac’d occur; and both imbibe 
Fitting congenial juice, fo rich the foil. 
So much does fniBuous moifture o’er abound. Philips. 
FRU'GAL, adj. {frugalis,'LM. frugal, Fr.] Thrifty ; 
fparing; parfimonious; not prodigal; not profufe ; not 
lavilh : 
And wing’d purveyors his fharp hunger fed 
Vl'ixhfrugal Icraps of flefti and mullin bread. Harte. 
If through mifts he (hoots his fullen beams, 
Frugaloi light, inloofe and draggling ftreams, 
Sulpeft a drifting day. Dryden, 
FRU'GALLY, adv, Parfimonioufty ; fparingly ; thrif¬ 
tily : 
Mean time young Parfimond his marriage prefs’d. 
And frugally relolv’d, the charge to (hun, 
To join his brother’s brid.tl with his own, Dryden, 
F R Lf 
FRUGAL'ITY, f, \_ frugaUte, Fr. frugalkas, Lat.] 
Thrift ; parfimony ; good hulbandry.—As for the gene¬ 
ral fort of men, frugality may be the caufe of drinking 
water; for that is no fmall faving, to pay nothing for 
one’s drink. Bacon. 
Frugality and bounty too, 
Thofe diff’ring virtues meet in you. tValler. 
FRU'GES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridl of Montreuil : three leagues north of Hefdin, and 
four fouth-weft of Arras. 
FRUGO'NI (Carlo-Innocenzo), a celebrated Italian 
poet, born of a noble family at Genoa in 1692. He was 
one of thofe facrifices fo frequent among the younger 
children of the Italian nobility, and at the age of fixteen 
was perfuaded, much againft his inclination, to take the 
monadic vows in the congregation of Sommafehi. “ I 
was, (fays he,) ready to die with chagrin and indignation, 
in a condition not made for me a fituation, doubtlefs, 
too common among thefe “ captives of the cloifter,” as he 
terms them. He taught claftical literature with fuccefs for 
fome years in feveral of the cities of Italy ; and at length, 
at the age of thirty-five, through the iritereft of cardinal 
Bentivoglio, he was liberated from his vows by pope 
Clement XII. retaining only the fecular priefthood. At 
this time he had obtained the patronage of the houfe of 
Farnefe, who gave him an honourable afylum in Parma. 
When the duke eftablKhed in that capital an academy for 
the fine arts, Frugoni was employed to draw up its fta- 
tutes, and was made its perpetual fecretary. To this 
office were joined thofe of court-poet and infpeftor of 
theatrical exhibitions ; and penfions and honours were li¬ 
berally beftowed upon him. His poetical compofitions 
fpread his fame throughout Italy ; and he preferred the 
fire and vivacity of his genius to an advanced age, dying 
at Parma in December, 1768. His works confilt of fon- 
nets, odes, canzoni, elegies, fatires, eclogues, and epif- 
tles. As well in ferious as in fportive writings he had a 
ftyle peculiar to himfelf, diftingui(hed by warmth, ener- 
gy, and facility. He is judged to have difplayed moft me¬ 
rit and originality in lyric poetry, in which he attained a 
fublimity fcarcely furpaffied by any of his countrymen. 
He pofi'elTed the imagination of a true poet; and one of 
his panegyrifts terms him “ il principe dello file fantaficod’’ 
at the head of the fanciful or figurative ftyle. ‘Heat- 
tempted the drama, but did not fucceed in it, though he 
had tranftated fuperiorly the Rhadamiftus and Zenobia 
of Crebillcn. His colledbed works were publifiied at 
Parma, in 9 volumes 8vo. 1779. 
FRUHITAN', an iftand in the Atlantic, near the 
weftern coaft of Ireland : three miles weft of Mafa Point. 
FRUGI F'ERENT, adj. [from the Lat./rax, fruit, and 
fero, to hear .2 Bearing fruit. Scott. 
FRUGIF'EROUS, adj. ^frugifer, Lat.] Bearing fruit. 
Ainfworth. 
FRUGIF'EROUSNESS,/; Fruitfulnefs, fertility. ScotU 
FRUGI V'OROUS, [from the Lat.yrax, fruit, and 
voro, to devour.] Devouring fruits. 
FRUGI V'OROUSNESS,/. The quality of devouring 
fruits. Scott. 
FRUIT, /. [fruBus, Lat. frwyth, WeKh ; fruit, Fr.] 
The produG of a tree or plant in which the feeds are coa- 
tained : 
The ftrawberry gTov.fS underneath the nettle. 
And wholefome berries thrive and ripen befl, 
Neighbour’d by fruit of bafer quality. Shakefpeare. 
That part of a plant which is taken for food : 
By tailing of that fruit forbid, 
Where they fought knowledge, they did error find. 
Davies. 
See how the xiimgfruits the gardens crown. 
Imbibe the fun, and make his light their own. Blackmore. 
Pioduition.—The fruit of the fpiritis in allgoodnefs, and 
arighte. 
