lanifice

English

Etymology

Latin lanificium: compare Old French lanifice.

Noun

lanifice (plural lanifices)

1. (obsolete) Anything made of wool.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.

   • 1974, Olwen H. Hufton, The poor of eighteenth-century France, 1750-1789:

     If the lanifice (woollen manufacture) of Mende at least staggered into the closing years of the ancien regime, it only did so in a purely nominal sense.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lanifice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• filicane