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The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.

A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor. Blackstone.

Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty. A. Hamilton.

Ambounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

Endless; boundless. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.

Made of fir; abounding in firs. In firry woodlands making moan. Tennyson.

Abounding with fish. [R.] "My fishful pond." R. Carew.

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish. Pope.

Abounding with the plant called flag; as, a flaggy marsh.

emy, or to take up a new position. -- Flanks of a frontier, salient points in a national boundary, strengthened to protect the frontier against hostile incursion. -- Flank patrol, detachments acting independently of the column of an army, but patrolling along its flanks, to secure it against surprise and to observe t…

Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot.

Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart. Flinty rockFlinty state, a siliceous slate; -- basanite is here included. See Basanite.

Abounding with flocks; floccose.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.

To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson.

Abounding with flowers. Craig.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.