Reproductive power

VI. Such corporeal Habitudes as do concern the Propagation of the Species,* do refer either to the

• Kinds of things apt for Propagation, according to the
  • General name.
    • SEX, Kind, Gender, Epicene, Hermaphrodite.
  • Particular distribution into ‖ more, or less noble.
    • MALE, masculine, Buck, Bore, Dog, Gib, Cock, Milter, He.
    • FEMALE, feminine, Doe, Sow, Bitch, Hen, Spawner, She.
• Disposition of things ‖ for, or against Propagation.
  • FRUITFULNESS, fertile-ity, foecund, prolifi•••• fructifie, rank, produce fruit.
  • BARRENNESS, Sterility, Vnfruitfulness, infertile, blasting, blite.
• State of things generated, when they ‖ have attained the perfection they ought to have: or else are in a state of imperfection, by reason of ex∣cess, or defect.
  • RIPENESS, Maturity, mellow, Precocity, stale, hatch.
    • OVER-RIPENESS, fading, decaying, withering.
    • VNRIPENESS, immature, green.