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Able to suffer or endure; patient. [Obs.] "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer.

The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. He must not only die the death, But thy unkindness shall his death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak.

One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.

The surf duck. [U. S.]

See Taffrail.

Same as Suctoria, 1.

Producing or bearing tentacles.

Carrying or bearing upon the back. Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

Telepathy.

Producing or bearing frankincense.

Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

An alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells are carried to the top of the fermening liquid. It proceeds with some violence and requires a temperature of 14-30º C. (58-86º F.). It is used in the production of ale, porter, etc., and of wines high in alcohol, and in distilling.

Same as Toxoglossa.

another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

The quality or state of being transferable.

Capable of being transferred or conveyed from one place or person to another.

The person to whom a transfer in made.

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

The act or process of copying inscriptions, or the like, by making transfers.