a. [f. L. vēlifer, f. vēlum VELUM: see -FEROUS.]
† 1. Carrying sails. Obs.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Veliferous, that bears saile, or is under sail, as a ship.
1674. Evelyn, Navig. & Commerce, 53. Nay, so addicted were they to Sailing, that they invented Veliferous Chariots, and to Sail upon the Land. Ibid. (1697), Numismata, viii. 280. Stevinus, who (besides several Geometrical Instruments) framed the Veliferous Chariot, celebrated by the Learned Grotius.
2. Zool. Bearing a velum; membranous.
1871. T. R. Jones, Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4), 614. With its veliferous arms thus firmly embracing its abode, the Argonaut has two modes of progression.
