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The act of an offerer; a proffering.

The act of offering, or the thing offered. [Obs. or R.] Bacon. Bp. Fell.

Offer; proposal; overture. [Obs.] More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.

Producing oil; as, oleiferous seeds.

All-bearing; producing all kinds.

Bearing an operculum.

Bringing help. [R.]

Containing or yielding bone.

Producing oysters; containing oysters.

To exceed in suffering.

Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

Producing ovules.

Bearing palms.

Same as Palpiger.

Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.

est-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms." Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.

In a pestiferuos manner.

Bearing petals.

A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.

To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.