‖n. pl. [ NL. See Acetabuliferous. ] (Zool.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins.
Syn. -- group Amentiferae [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. concha + ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of plants with four-petaled flowers; the mustard family.
Syn. -- family Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. ferax, -acis, fr. ferre to bear. ] Fruitful; producing abundantly. [ R. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. feracitas. ] The state of being feracious or fruitful. [ Obs. ] Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ L., wild animals, fem. pl. of ferus wild. ] (Zool.) A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.

a. [ L. feralis, belonging to the dead. ] Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [ R. ] “Feral accidents.” Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ferus. See Fierce. ] (Bot. & Zool.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A child not raised in the company of humans; a child raised by wild animals. Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology were feral children. Authenticated examples of children raised by beasts are rare or nonexistent, though there are stories of children being raised from infancy in isolation from adults, or in the presence of deaf and dumb adults, resulting in an inability to speak human language. [ PJC ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. foramen, -aminis, a foramen + ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from E. indigo + L. ferre to bear. ] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (family Leguminosae) having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, Indigofera suffroticosa, and Indigofera Anil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. [ Written also inferrible. ] H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. [ 1913 Webster ]

A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Forbearance to punish or resent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. patient endurance of pain or unhappiness.
Syn. -- long-suffering. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Biochem.) an enzyme which catalyzes the oxidation of luciferin, thereby producing bioluminescence. [ PJC ]

prop. n. genus of tropical trees native to Asia bearing fleshy fruit.
Syn. -- genus Mangifera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Piliferous. ] (Zool.) Same as Mammalia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) The Anthozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. porus pore + ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiæ, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiæ, Keratosa or Fibrospongiæ, and Silicea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Polifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] The Polifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. préférable. ] Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being preferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In preference; by choice. [ 1913 Webster ]

To choose Plautus preferably to Terence. Dennis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Proboscis, and -ferous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A subdivision of the tænioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. proles offspring + ferre to bear. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Biol.) To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) To produce zooids by budding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Biol.) The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation. Virchow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pulmoniferous. ] (Zool.) Same as Pulmonata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable. [ Written also referrible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies are referable to one general cause. W. Nicholson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. rostrum beak + ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. [ NL., from L. rota &unr_; wheel + ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. securis an ax + ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) The Serrifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. serra saw + ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. souffrable. ] 1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. [ Obs. ] “Ye must be sufferable.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. suffrance, OF. sufrance, soufrance, F. souffrance, L. sufferentia, from sufferens, -entis, p. pr. of sufferre. See Suffer. ] 1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

He must not only die the death,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
To lingering sufferance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

The seeming sufferances that you had borne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Loss; damage; injury. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In their beginning they are weak and wan,
But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Estate of sufferance (Law), the holding by a tenant who came in by a lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. Blackstone. --
On sufferance, by mere toleration; as, to remain in a house on sufferance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Endurance; pain; misery; inconvenience; patience; moderation; toleration; permission. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) Same as Suctoria, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. to`xon a bow + L. ferre to bear. ] (Zool.) Same as Toxoglossa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being transferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. transférable. ] 1. Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Negotiable, as a note, bill of exchange, or other evidence of property, that may be conveyed from one person to another by indorsement or other writing; capable of being transferred with no loss of value; as, the stocks of most public companies are transferable; some tickets are not transferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Insufferable. [ Obs. ] Hooker. -- Un*suf"fer*a*bly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

See obnoxious.
See observable.
See observant.
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See obvious.
See official.
See officious.
See oppressive.
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See pacifiable.
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See painful.
See palatable.
See parallelable.
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See sane.
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See sunny.
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See susceptible.
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See sweet.
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See tragic.
See tranquil.
See transferable.
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See transmutable.
See transparent.
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See traversable.
See tremulous.
See trimphant.
See trustworthy.
See trusty.
See tumultous.
See tunable.
See uniform.
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See variant.
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See vigorous.
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See vital.
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See vocal.
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See vulgar.
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n. Vociferation; noise; clamor. [ R. ] R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vociferans, p. pr. ] Noisy; clamorous. Gauden. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. vociferatus, p. p. vociferari to vociferate; vox, vocis, voice + ferre to bear. See Voice, and Bear to carry. ] To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Vociferated p. pr. & vb. n. Vociferating. ] To utter with a loud voice; to shout out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though he may vociferate the word liberty. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]