v. [f. FRUIT sb. + -EN5.] † a. trans. To make fruitful (obs.). b. intr. To become full of fruit. Hence Fruitening ppl. a. (rare–1).
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, 84. I will give you seasonable raines, both the first raine after your seed time, to supple and fruiten the earth, and the later raine before your harvest, to swell up, and fill the eares.
1839. Bailey, Festus (1848), 11/2. Fanning the fruitening plains.
