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Having an embryo.

Bearing a sword.

Having equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent.

Producing heat. [R.] Smart.

Fate-bringing; deadly; mortal; destructive. [R.] Johnson.

Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.

a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfæmina), growing in many countries; lady fern.

One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.

Producing young, as animals.

A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within an East Indian holothurian.

One who plays on a fife.

Producing threads. Carpenter.

Producing flame.

Producing tears. [Obs.] Blount.

Producing flowers. Blount.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

Tending to produce waves. Blount.

Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]

One of the foraminifera.

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.