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t or phrase. Let us descend from generalities to particulars. Landor. The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate.

A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.

and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise. O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. Longfellow.

Having, abounding in, or decked with, daisies. [Scot.] Sweeter than gowany glens or new-mown hay. Ramsay.

Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Neh. ix. 17. So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak.…

Consisting of hail; abounding in hail. [R.] Bailey.

Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.

The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.

Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser.

Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.

e salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. -- Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. -- Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. -- Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis. -- Green snake…

Pertaining to a natural order of trees and shrubs (Guttiferæ) noted for their abounding in a resinous sap.

Abounding in gyres. [Obs.]

The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson.

A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

Heathy; abounding in heather; of the nature of heath.

Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.

l the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.

The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense. I never saw the heavens so dim by day. Shak. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for t…