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Abounding with flocks; floccose.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.

elopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

Abounding with flowers. Craig.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

Soft clayey matter in the vein, or surrounding it. [Written also flookan, flukan, and fluccan.]

Sounding like waves.

Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak.

but followed the arts! Shak. O Antony! I have followed thee to this. Shak. Follow board (Founding), a board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask. Knight. -- To follow the hounds, to hunt with dogs. -- To follow suit (Card Playing), to play a card of the same suit as the leadi…

n distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.

To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Abounding in frogs. Sherwood.

Abounding in fragments. [R.]

A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [Written also fulness.] "In thy presence is fullness of joy." Ps. xvi. 11.

bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. Gay.

An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.