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The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded.

The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In…

Inclosing; encircling; surrounding. The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. Shak.

A current due to variation in the magnetic field surrounding its conductor.

To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.

Abounding in islands. [R.]

The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. Marshall.

ound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding Littré.

Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reënforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.

A bounding with juice; succulent. Bacon.

Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle.

n they do not practice it themselves. Tillotson. Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the var…

Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. [U.S.] Bartlett.

Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniæ.

A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.

A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.