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Superabundance of weight; preponderance.

To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Shak.

A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of…

A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. 'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. Cowper. Bill of parcels. See under 6th Bill. -- Parcel office, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery. -- Parcel post, that department of the post office concer…

A fen producing peat. (c) (Bot.) Moss of the genus Sphagnum, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places. -- Peat reek, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel. [Scot.]

A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian. Pentamerus limestone (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed largely of the shells of Pentamerus.

See Abundant number, under Abundant. Brande & C. -- Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed.

nnective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.

The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing.

A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. To pile arms or muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.

t of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.

The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.

Containing plenty; abundant; copious; plentiful; sufficient for every purpose; as, a plenteous supply. "Reaping plenteous crop." Milton.

Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.