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Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal. -- Su`per*a*bun"dant*ly, adv.

Abounding with support. [Obs.] Chapman.

Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore. Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves That foam around those frightful caves. Moore.

Abounding in surges; surgy. "Tossing the surgeful tides." Drayton.

ermining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geodesy. -- Maritime, or Nautical, surveying, that branch of surve…

A gradual ascent, or rounded elevation, of land; as, an extensive plain abounding with little swells.

Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.

Abounding with thyme; fragrant; as, a thymy vale. Akenside. Where'er a thymy bank he found, He rolled upon the fragrant ground. Gay.

Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. "The tinny strand." Drayton.

atory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.

Abounding in tone or sound.

Abounding in tresses. J. Baillie.

Abounding with tufts. Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell. Drayton.

Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf. "The turfy mountains." Shak.

Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. " Twiggy trees." Evelyn.

Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy. [R.] " Twigsome trees." Dickens.

Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] Shak.

Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. Too verbose in their way of speaking. Ayliffe. -- Ver*bose"ly, adv. -- Ver*bose"ness, n.

Abounding with vetches.