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Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.

Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.

Splendor-bearing; splendid. Bale (1538). "A splendiferous woman." Haliburton. [Now used humorously.]

Bearing sporidia.

Bearing or producing spores.

Producing sporules.

Producing foam.

See under Stag.

Bearing or having stamens.

Containing or affording tin.

Having, or abounding with, stars.

Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

Having or producing stomata.

One who, or that which, stuffs.

Bearing one or more styles.

Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.

To infer from an inference already made. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Producing or conveying sap.

Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous. Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.

e, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.