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Half of a circumference.

ring; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.

Exciting sensation; conveying sensation. Huxley.

Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.

A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.

Producing, or having one or more, bristles.

Bearing signs. [Obs.] "The signifer sphere, or zodiac." Holland.

Producing silica; united with silica.

Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.

One who snuffs.

An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.

k color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.

Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.

A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.

Sounding; producing sound; conveying sound.

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." Swift. --- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.

Bearing soredia; sorediate.

Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate. [Obs.] Bailey.