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Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

Abounding with shops. [Colloq.]

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

the 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.

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.

To snow; to abound. [Obs.] It snewed in his house of meat and drink. Chaucer.

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.

Abounding in spells, or charms. Here, while his eyes the learned leaves peruse, Each spellful mystery explained he views. Hoole.

Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.

Producing, or abounding with, spices. In hot Ceylon spicy forests grew. Dryden.

Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. Bp. Warburton. Spiny lobster. (Zoöl.) Same as Rock lobster, under Rock. See also Lobster.

Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. "Spiry towns." Thomson.

Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.

Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.

Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." Pope.

Having, or abounding with, stars.

Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.