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Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." Ray.

Bearing or producing acorns.

Producing balsam.

A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

Having two anthers.

Bearing fruit twice a year.

Generating bile.

Containing bismuth.

Producing bitumen. Kirwan.

One who bluffs.

A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

ic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

Producing bulbs.

Bearing a byssus or tuft.

Producing reeds; reedy.

Lime-yielding; calciferous

Bearing producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. Calciferouse epoch (Geol.), and epoch in the American lower Silurian system, immediately succeeding the Cambrian period. The name alludes to the peculiar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Grology…

An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.