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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.

storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56. The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.

Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle. -- Storm"ful*ness, n.

Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.

Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior.

Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.

Abounding in stubs; stubby. A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. R. Browning.

Abounding with stubs.

A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin.

Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts. [R.] -- Sub*sul"to*ri*ly, adv. [R.] Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men. De Quincey.