a. [f. L. aurifer (f. auri- comb. f. aurum gold + -fer producing) + -OUS.] Containing or yielding gold; lit. and fig. Hence Auriferously adv.
1727. Thomson, Summer, 648. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays.
1849. Murchison, Siluria, i. (1867), 18. Those slaty rocks which bear the chief auriferous quartz-veins.
1855. Dickens, Dorrit, II. xvi. 390. Only one thing sat otherwise than auriferously … on Mr. Dorrit’s mind.
