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, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.

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.

The country rock bounding a vein laterally. Raymond.

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.

Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.

Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray.

Made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also, abounding in withes. The stream is brimful now, and lies high in this little withy plantation. G. Eliot.

Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton.

The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness. Jeffrey.

Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds." Shak.