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Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant. [R.] The wealthy witness of my pen. B. Jonson.

ngs, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel. Milton. A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a complication of circumstances, motives, etc. -- Balance wheel. See in the Vocab. -- Be…

her kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.

Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted. Misled by ill example, and a winsome nature. Jeffrey.

To extort; to wring; to wrest. [R.] The nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign in writhing money from them by every species of oppression. Sir W. Scott.

ound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 217, 270, 271.

One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples.

e genus Zeuzera is the type. Some of these moths are of large size. The goat moth is an example.

ly Zygænidæ, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively.

organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.