*cund*

v. t. [ See Cond. ] To con (a ship). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. facundus, fr. fari to speak. ] Eloquent. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. facundiosus. ] Eloquement; full of words. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. facunditas. ] Eloquence; readiness of speech. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fecundus, from the root of fetus: cf. F. fécond. see Fetus. ] Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fecundated p. pr. & vb. n. Fecundating ] [ L. fecundare, fr. fecundus. See Fecund. ] 1. To make fruitful or prolific. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fécondation. ] (Biol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Fecund + -fy. ] To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fecunditas: cf. F. fécondité. See Fecund. ] 1. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The power of germinating; as in seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. infecundus: cf. F. infécond. See In- not, and Fecund. ] Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. infecunditas: cf. F. infécondité. ] Lack of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Infecund. ] Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. injucunditas. See In- not, and Jocund. ] Unpleasantness; disagreeableness. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. iracundus, fr. ira anger. ] Irascible; choleric. “Iracund people.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. jocundus, jucundus, orig., helpful, fr. juvare to help. See Aid. ] Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior.

-- Joc"und*ly adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Merrily; cheerfully. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jocunditas jucunditas. See Jocund, and cf. Jucundity. ] The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jucunditas, from jucundus. ] Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to prefecundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. rubicundus, fr. rubere to be red, akin to ruber red. See Red. ] Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. “His rubicund face.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. rubicunditas. ] The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. secundus following the course or current of wind or water. See Second, a. ] (Bot.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. secundatus, p. p. of secundare to direct favorably. ] To make prosperous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Prosperity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. secondine. ] 1. (Bot.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the ripened seed the primine and secundine are usually united to form the testa, or outer seed coat. When they remain distinct the secundine becomes the mesosperm, as in the castor bean. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. secondines. ] The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. secundus second + genitura a begetting, generation. ] A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. in trigesimo-secundo in the thirty-second. ] Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book composed of sheets so folded that each one makes thirty-two leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 32mo, or 32°, and called thirty-twomo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. verecundus, fr. vereri to feel awe. ] Bashful; modest. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Verecund. [ Obs. ] “Verecundious generosity.” Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]