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Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. "Scaly crocodile." Milton.

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! Addison.

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Wh…

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden.

Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows. "A shelfy coast." Dryden.

Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. "The shelly shore." Prior. Shrinks backward in his shelly cave. Shak.

Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

Abounding with shops. [Colloq.]

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

n shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.

he nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime. Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. "A dark, drizzling, slushy day." Blackw. Mag.

Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots. "Upon a snaggy oak." Spenser.

Abounding with snow; covered with snow. "The snowy top of cold Olympus." Milton.

Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose. Sparry iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a). -- Sparry limestone (Min.), a coarsely crystalline marble.