a. rare. [ad. L. lānific-us, f. lāna wool + -ficus making: see -FIC.] a. Wool-bearing. b. Busied in spinning wool.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. li. (1737), 353. All the Lanific Trees of Seres.
1806. W. 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 † Lanifical, a. (1656 in Blount, Glossogr.), † Lanificous, a. (1721 in Bailey).
