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lanific, a. rare.|leɪˈnɪfɪk| [ad. L. lānific-us, f. lāna wool + -ficus making: see -fic.] a. Wool-bearing. b. Busied in spinning wool.
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. li. (1737) 353 All the Lanific Trees of Seres. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 772 The distinct offices of the lanific sisters, as Catullus calls them, were afterwards transferred to the distaff and the rock. So † laˈnifical, a. (1656 in Blount Glossogr.), † laˈnificous, a. (1721 in Bailey). |