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matory 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.

y drawing the hook through the water. Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft.

al, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year. [Written also tzetze, and tsetze.]

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.

Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.

Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines. P. Fletcher.

essaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need. Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. Swift.

Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. [R.] Chapman.

Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.

Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv.

Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. Bryant.

Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze. A fine, large, whinny, . . . unimproved common. Sterne.